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Between Quran and Kafka - West-Eastern Affinities

Autor: Navid Kermani

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: Wiley-Blackwell

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What connects Shiite passion plays with Brecht's drama? Which of Goethe's poems were inspired by the...

Informacje o książce

Autor

Navid Kermani

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2016

strony

300

EAN

9781509500345

ISBN

9781509500345

Enbook ID

10045939

Wydawca

Wiley-Blackwell

Waga

472

Wymiary

229 x 154 x 24

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What connects Shiite passion plays with Brecht's drama? Which of Goethe's poems were inspired by the Quran? How can Ibn Arabi's theology of sighs explain the plays of Heinrich von Kleist? And why did the Persian author Sadeq Hedayat identify with the Prague Jew Franz Kafka? 'One who knows himself and others will here too understand: Orient and Occident are no longer separable': in this new book, the critically acclaimed author and scholar Navid Kermani takes Goethe at his word. He reads the Quran as a poetic text, opens Eastern literature to Western readers, unveils the mystical dimension in the works of Goethe and Kleist, and deciphers the political implications of theatre, from Shakespeare to Lessing to Brecht. Drawing striking comparisons between a diverse range of literary traditions and cultures, Kermani argues for a literary cosmopolitanism that is opposed to all those who would play religions and cultures against one another, isolating them by force from one another. Between Quran and Kafka concludes with Kermani's speech on receiving Germany's highest literary prize, an impassioned plea for greater fraternity when confronted with the tyranny and terrorism of Islamic State. Kermani's personal assimilation of the classics gives his work that topical urgency that distinguishes universal literature when it speaks to our most intimate feelings. For of course love too lies 'between Quran and Kafka'.