Adonis

Sufism and Surrealism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

One of the greatest living Arab poets offers a radical exploration of the commonalities between two seemingly disparate traditions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Saqi Books
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 136mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 278g
• ISBN-13: 9780863561894
• ISBN-10: 0863561896
• Artikelnr.: 43897220

Autorenporträt

Adonis is one of the most celebrated poets and essayists of the Arab world. Born in Syria in 1930, he fled political persecution and settled in Lebanon in the 1950s, where he led the modernist movement in Arabic poetry. He has written more than thirty books in Arabic, including the pioneering work An Introduction to Arab Poetics (also by Saqi Books), and was awarded the Goethe Prize in 2011 for his contribution to international literature. His other awards include the Spiros Vergos Prize for Freedom of Expression, the Bjørnson Prize, the International Nâzim Hikmet Poetry Award and the Syria-Lebanon Best Poet Award. He lives in Paris.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction
Part One: Sufism and Surrealism
Knowledge
Imagination
Love
Writing
The Aesthetic Dimension
The Harmonious Difference
Part Two: The Visible Invisible, Followed by Four Studies
The Writings of al-Niffari or the Poetic of Thought
Vision and Image
The Naked Eye and the Eye of the Heart
Creativity and Form
Rimbaud, Orientalist, Sufi
Appendix: Extracts from Surrealist Writing
Notes
Selected Writings on Surrealism
Index