Remembrances - Couverture rigide

Mir, Mir Taqi

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0674660293 ISBN 13 : 9780674660298

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 2019

Synopsis

A rare and remarkable example of Indo-Persian autobiography by the poet Mir Taqi Mir.

Mir Muhammad Taqi Mir (1723-1810) is the author of six collections of Urdu poetry and widely regarded as the finest ghazal poet in that language. However, he also wrote one volume of verse and three prose works in Persian, including Zikr-e Mir, or Remembrances, a rare and remarkable example of Indo-Persian autobiography.

Remembrances recounts Mir's ancestry, his father's spiritual quest, and his own struggles to find education and patronage both in his native Agra and in Delhi. While the work may offer few glimpses into the author's private life or professional literary activity, it presents a vivid picture of political events and intrigues between 1760 and 1789, when north India witnessed extensive warfare.

The Persian text, presented here in the Naskh script, includes all the author's additions and alterations properly identified and chronologically arranged, along with a newly revised English translation. Mir concludes his autobiography with a series of jokes and witty anecdotes, some of them quite risqué, that are printed here for the first time.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

C. M. Naim is Professor Emeritus of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674660293
• ISBN 13: 9780674660298
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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