Between Quran and Kafka

Released on by Navid Kermani
preview-18

  • Between Quran and Kafka Book Detail

  • Author : Navid Kermani
  • Release Date : 2017-05-23
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 322
  • ISBN 13 : 1509500359
  • File Size : 38,38 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Between Quran and Kafka by Navid Kermani PDF Summary

Book Description: What connects Shiite passion plays with Brechts drama? Which of Goethes poems were inspired by the Quran? How can Ibn Arabis 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 diverse 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 from one another by force. Between Quran and Kafka concludes with Kermanis speech on receiving Germanys highest literary prize, an impassioned plea for greater fraternity in the face of the tyranny and terrorism of Islamic State. Kermanis 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.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Between Quran and Kafka books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Between Quran and Kafka

Between Quran and Kafka

File Size : 13,13 MB
Total View : 2957 Views
DOWNLOAD

What connects Shiite passion plays with Brechts drama? Which of Goethes poems were inspired by the Quran? How can Ibn Arabis theology of sighs explain the plays

The Culture of Islam

The Culture of Islam

File Size : 13,13 MB
Total View : 1741 Views
DOWNLOAD

Having worked for several decades in North Africa, anthropologist Lawrence Rosen is uniquely placed to ask what factors contribute to the continuity and changes

Quran

Quran

File Size : 39,39 MB
Total View : 1322 Views
DOWNLOAD

This small book contains the most essential passages of the Holy Quran, translated into clear English. A must-read book for non-Muslims and Muslims alike. Are y

The Islamic Threat

The Islamic Threat

File Size : 10,10 MB
Total View : 7680 Views
DOWNLOAD

Are Islam and the West on a collision course? From the Ayatollah Khomeini to Saddam Hussein, the image of Islam as a militant, expansionist, and rabidly anti-Am