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Vis & Ramin (Hardcover, Hardcover)
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VIS & RAMIN is one of the world's great love stories. it was
the first major Persian romance, written between 1050 and 1055 in
rhyming couplets. This remarkable work has now been superbly
translated into heroic couplets (the closest metrical equivalent of
the Persian) by the poet and scholar Dick Davis. VIS AND RAMIN had
immense influence on later Persian poetry and is very probably also
the source for the tale of Tristan and Isolde, which first appeared
in Europe about a century later. The plot, complex yet powerfully
dramatic, revolves around royal marital customs unfamiliar to us
today. shahru, the married queen of mah, refuses an offer of
marriage from King mobad of marv but promises that if she bears a
daughter she will give the child to him as a bride. she duly bears
a daughter, Vis, who is brought up by a nurse in the company of
mobad's younger brother Ramin. By the time Vis reaches the age of
marriage, shahru has forgotten her promise and instead weds her
daughter to Vis's older brother, Viru. The next day mobad's brother
Zard arrives to demand the bride, and fighting breaks out, during
which Vis's father is killed. mobad then bribes shahru to hand Vis
over to him. mobad's brother Ramin escorts Vis to her new husband
and falls in love with her on the way. Vis has no love for mobad
and turns to her old nurse for help...Told in language that is
lush, sensual and highly inventive, VIS AND RAMIN is a masterpiece
of psychological perceptiveness and characterisation: shahru is
worldly and venal, the nurse resourceful and amoral (she will
immediately remind Western readers of the nurse in shakespeare's
Romeo and Juliet), Vis high-spirited and determined, Ramin
impetuous and volatile. and the hopeless psychological situation of
Vis' husband, mobad, flickers wearily from patience to
self-assertion to fury and back again. The origins of VIS AND RAMIN
are obscure. The story dates from the time of the Parthians (who
ruled Persia from the third century BCE to the third century CE),
and certainly existed in oral and perhaps written form before the
eleventh century Persian poet Fakhraddin Gorgani composed the
version that has come down to us.
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