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Between Quran and Kafka

West-Eastern Affinities
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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... 

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0+
Release date on Litres:
21 August 2019
Volume:
321 p.
ISBN:
9781509500352
Total size:
1.2 МБ
Total number of pages:
321
Copyright holder:
John Wiley & Sons Limited