Layli and Majnun (Paperback)
Paperback 320 pages English February 09, 2021
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The Persian epic that inspired Eric Clapton's unforgettable love song "Layla" and that Lord Byron called "the Romeo and Juliet of the East," in a masterly new translation A Penguin Classic The iconic love story of the Middle East, by a twelfth-century Persian poet who has been compared to Shakespeare for his subtlety, inventiveness, and dramatic force, Layli and Majnun tells of star-crossed lovers whose union is tragically thwarted by their families and whose passion continues to ripple out across the centuries. Theirs is a love that lasts a lifetime, and in Nezami's immortal telling, erotic longing blends with spiritual self-denial in an allegory of Sufi aspiration, as the amenities of civilization give way to the elemental wilderness, desire is sublimated into a mystical renunciation of the physical world, and the soul confronts its essence. This is a tour de force of Persian literature, in a translation that captures the extraordinary power and virtuosity of the original.
- Author:
- Nezami Ganjavi, Dick Davis
- Publisher:
- Penguin Classics
- Publication Date:
- February 09, 2021
- Number of pages:
- 320 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0143133993
- ISBN-13:
- 9780143133995