Faces of Love
Autor H Fez, Jahan Malek Khatun, Obayd-e Zakani Traducere de Dick Davisen Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 aug 2013
Observăm în Faces of Love o reconstituire vibrantă a orașului Shiraz din secolul al XIV-lea, un spațiu în care creativitatea a înflorit paradoxal într-o epocă marcată de violență. Această antologie publicată de Penguin Publishing Group nu este doar o simplă culegere de versuri, ci o fereastră către diversitatea sufletului uman, prezentată prin vocile a trei figuri emblematice: Hafez, gigantul literaturii universale, Jahan Malek Khatun, o prințesă elocventă a cărei voce feminină este rară în epocă, și Obayd-e Zakani, un satiric dizolvat și tăios. Remarcăm efortul traducătorului Dick Davis de a transforma originalele persane în poeme englezești care păstrează muzicalitatea și profunzimea metaforelor sufi. Structura volumului permite o analiză comparativă a iubirii, de la venerația mistică la satira socială. Acoperă aceeași arie tematică precum The Poets of Shiraz de Paul Smith, dar cu o abordare mai concentrată și curatorială. În timp ce antologia lui Smith oferă o panoramă vastă a sutelor de ani de poezie, Faces of Love se focalizează pe intersecția biografică și stilistică a celor trei autori contemporani, oferind cititorului un context istoric și geografic prin hărțile și notele incluse. Ediția se distinge prin calitatea literară a traducerii, reușind să facă accesibile concepte complexe ale filozofiei persane fără a sacrifica rigoarea academică specifică seriei Penguin Classics.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0143107283
Pagini: 368
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations, maps
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Penguin Publishing Group
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte cititorilor pasionați de poezia universală și istoria culturală a Iranului. Prin Faces of Love, câștigați acces la o traducere de referință care redă vocea unică a prințesei Jahan Malek Khatun alături de maeștrii Hafez și Obayd-e Zakani. Este o resursă esențială pentru a înțelege cum literatura a supraviețuit perioadelor de conflict, oferind perspective surprinzător de moderne despre dorință, spiritualitate și critică socială.
Despre autor
Volumul reunește trei voci fundamentale ale Shirazului medieval. Hafez este cel mai iubit poet al Iranului, opera sa fiind considerată culmea liricii persane mistice. Jahan Malek Khatun, contemporană cu Hafez, a fost o prințesă din dinastia Injuids, lăsând în urmă unul dintre cele mai vaste divanuri scrise de o femeie în perioada clasică. Obayd-e Zakani este recunoscut pentru geniul său satiric, folosind umorul pentru a critica ipocrizia religioasă și socială. Traducătorul Dick Davis, el însuși un poet aclamat, este considerat cel mai fin interpret contemporan al literaturii persane în limba engleză.
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Recenzii
Davis has done something I'd thought impossible: given us an Englished Hafez whose verses retain an intimation of what all the fuss is about...this anthology is a revelation
Radiant...Davis expertly elucidates the conventions these poets worked within and played against
Dick Davis's love affair with Persian literature has resulted in another marvelous offspring. Faces of Love reveals to us the mysterious connections between three vastly different fourteenth-century Persian poets. Through their eyes, Davis brings us that other Iran of poetry, lyrical beauty, diversity, and sensuality; only a lover and a poet could so passionately and meticulously capture the true spirit of these magnificent poems that transcend the boundaries of space and time
For me, the most remarkable poetic translation project in the last twenty years has been Dick Davis' ambitious recreations of classical Persian literature. In book after book, Davis has memorably translated one of the world's great literatures into real English-language poetry. Finally, Davis has brought us new versions of Hafez and the great Shiraz poets. What can I say about this new book except: Yes! at last we meet one of the greatest lyric poets in history fully alive in English
In this heady volume of wine, roses, nightingales, and forbidden trysts, Dick Davis shows us three faces of medieval Persian love poetry: the elusively mystical, the searingly personal, and the gleefully profane. For those of us unfamiliar with this world, the excitement is something akin to stumbling across a new Pindar, Sappho, and Catullus in a single volume - that is, if they were contemporaries and flourished in the same small town. This book is equally valuable for its wide-ranging introduction and pellucid and musical translations (quotable as English poems in their own right) - it would be worthwhile for either, but is a gem for both. Perhaps the most thrilling surprise contained here, however, is the debut in English (if not the West) of Jahan Malek Khatun, an intellectual princess whose bold and moving poems of heartbreak (often daring in their exploration of gender roles) and exile are a revelation. Her pen name means 'the world' and indeed we feel that, in bringing these poems into our language, scholar, poet, and translator Dick Davis has opened a new world for us. One couldn't write a better description of this volume than one of her own epigrams:
Shiraz when spring is here - what pleasure equals this?
With streams to sit by, wine to drink, and lips to kiss,
With mingled sounds of drums and lutes and harps and flutes;
Then, with a nice young lover near, Shiraz is bliss
Probably the most difficult task of all for a Persianist is translating 14th-century poet Hafez. Poet, translator, scholar of Persian literature, Davis has succeeded in this challenge admirably. The most admired of all Persian poets, Hafez is a wizard with words, always alluring, seldom quite within reach. Here Davis also provides translations of poems of Jahan Malek Khatun, a less-known female poet, and of Obayd-e Zakani, a scandalous 'lavatorial' poet (both also 14th century). The translations of all three poets are superb, and they open up a new world even for those who know Persian well. Davis has supplied a long introduction in which he explains how Persian lyric poems (ghazals) work, both in formal terms and in terms of what ghazals speak of and why. The formal structure of a ghazal is not easily reproduced in English, but Davis has managed, better than anyone else so far, to give a rendering that makes these translations come alive and sing. He has also translated Obeyd-e Zakani's "Mush-o-gurbeh" ("Mouse and Cat"), a well-known narrative poem with clear political undertones, in a charming fashion. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers.
Descriere scurtă
Together, Hafez, a giant of world literature; Jahan Malek Khatun, an eloquent princess; and Obayd-e Zakani, a dissolute satirist, represent one of the most remarkable literary flowerings of any era. All three lived in the famed city of Shiraz, a provincial capital of south-central Iran, and all three drew support from arts-loving rulers during a time better known for its violence than its creative brilliance. Here Dick Davis, an award-winning poet widely considered "our finest translator of Persian poetry" (The Times Literary Supplement), presents a diverse selection of some of the best poems by these world-renowned authors and shows us the spiritual and secular aspects of love, in varieties embracing every aspect of the human heart.
"Davis [is] widely acknowledged as the leading translator of Persian literature in our time…Faces of Love has made the Persian originals into real and moving English poems." -Michael Dirda, The Washington Post
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