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Impostures (Paperback)
Al-Hariri; Translated by Michael Cooperson; Foreword by Abdelfattah Kilito
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R507
Discovery Miles 5 070
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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One of the Wall Street Journal's Top 10 Books of the Year Winner,
2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, Translation Category Shortlist, 2021
National Translation Award Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award, Literature
Category Fifty rogue's tales translated fifty ways An itinerant con
man. A gullible eyewitness narrator. Voices spanning continents and
centuries. These elements come together in Impostures, a
groundbreaking new translation of a celebrated work of Arabic
literature. Impostures follows the roguish Abu Zayd al-Saruji in
his adventures around the medieval Middle East-we encounter him
impersonating a preacher, pretending to be blind, and lying to a
judge. In every escapade he shows himself to be a brilliant and
persuasive wordsmith, composing poetry, palindromes, and riddles on
the spot. Award-winning translator Michael Cooperson transforms
Arabic wordplay into English wordplay of his own, using fifty
different registers of English, from the distinctive literary
styles of authors such as Geoffrey Chaucer, Mark Twain, and
Virginia Woolf, to global varieties of English including Cockney
rhyming slang, Nigerian English, and Singaporean English. Featuring
picaresque adventures and linguistic acrobatics, Impostures brings
the spirit of this masterpiece of Arabic literature into English in
a dazzling display of translation. An English-only edition.
Maqamat Abi Zayd al-Saruji is a scholarly, Arabic-only edition of
the celebrated work by al-Hariri, which is also available in
English translation from the Library of Arabic Literature as
Impostures. Al-Hariri's text consists of fifty stories about the
adventures of the itinerant con man and master of persuasion Abu
Zayd al-Saruji, as told by the equally itinerant and often gullible
narrator al-Harith ibn Hammam. Al-Hariri was a virtuoso writer of
the rhymed prose narrative genre known as the maqamah, which would
continue as a popular literary form into the twentieth century. An
Arabic edition with an Arabic foreword and English scholarly
apparatus.
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Impostures (Hardcover)
Al-Hariri; Translated by Michael Cooperson; Foreword by Abdelfattah Kilito
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R794
Discovery Miles 7 940
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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One of the Wall Street Journal's Top 10 Books of the Year Winner,
2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, Translation Category Shortlist, 2021
National Translation Award Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award, Literature
Category Fifty rogue's tales translated fifty ways An itinerant con
man. A gullible eyewitness narrator. Voices spanning continents and
centuries. These elements come together in Impostures, a
groundbreaking new translation of a celebrated work of Arabic
literature. Impostures follows the roguish Abu Zayd al-Saruji in
his adventures around the medieval Middle East-we encounter him
impersonating a preacher, pretending to be blind, and lying to a
judge. In every escapade he shows himself to be a brilliant and
persuasive wordsmith, composing poetry, palindromes, and riddles on
the spot. Award-winning translator Michael Cooperson transforms
Arabic wordplay into English wordplay of his own, using fifty
different registers of English, from the distinctive literary
styles of authors such as Geoffrey Chaucer, Mark Twain, and
Virginia Woolf, to global varieties of English including Cockney
rhyming slang, Nigerian English, and Singaporean English. Featuring
picaresque adventures and linguistic acrobatics, Impostures brings
the spirit of this masterpiece of Arabic literature into English in
a dazzling display of translation. An English-only edition.
Writing Flash Fiction: A Very Short Introduction is your quick and
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THIS 62 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Sacred Books and
Early Literature of the East: Medieval Arabic, Moorish, and
Turkish, by Charles F. Horne. To purchase the entire book, please
order ISBN 0766100014.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
THIS 62 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Sacred Books and
Early Literature of the East: Medieval Arabic, Moorish, and
Turkish, by Charles F. Horne. To purchase the entire book, please
order ISBN 0766100014.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
THIS 62 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Sacred Books and
Early Literature of the East: Medieval Arabic, Moorish, and
Turkish, by Charles F. Horne. To purchase the entire book, please
order ISBN 0766100014.
Abu Mohammed Al-Qasim Ali, known as Al Hariri of Basra, was an
eleventh-century Arab merchant, grammarian and writer, who
continued and developed a literary genre initiated by the Great
Hamadhani. The works of Al Hariri are considered among the classics
of Arabian literature, representing a formal literary style
encorporating a series of stories in rhymed prose, woven round the
characters of a narrator and his amusing companion who turns up in
many disguises. These stories, or 'Rhetorical Anecdotes' form the
collection known as the Makamat ('Assemblies'), in this context
taken to mean 'discourse' or 'conversation'. The embody a precise
literary form in which the subject matter is subordinate to the
syle. This edition contains a comprehensive study of the life and
works of Al Hariri, and includes copious anotations essential for
the modern reader's appreciation of the text.
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