The Forerunner: His Parables and Poems - Couverture souple

Gibran, Kahlil

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 158509286X ISBN 13 : 9781585092864

Editeur : Book Tree,US, 2007

Synopsis

From the acclaimed author of The Prophet comes a unique and moving collection of poems and parables. Twenty-five in all, they bring forth teachings on morality, spirituality and compassion in a way that only Gibran is capable. Although each entry is short, they evoke thoughtful reflection for those aware of his deeper meanings. Sometimes it may seem there is no message to an entry, at least on the surface, but the reader is being challenged to reflect a bit, by a true master, Gibran, before the insights come. The book is short, but what the reader may create and experience as a result of its reading could fill volumes. The author, also an artist, has included five black and white illustrations to accompany his work.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The wisdom, poetic outlook, and deep humanity for which Gibran’s best-known work, The Prophet, is famous are also amply present in The Forerunner, published just 3 years earlier. Heartfelt and compassionate, it is a memorable, internationally acclaimed collection of 24 morality tales dealing with universal human concerns.Khalil Gibran was a Lebanese artist, poet, and writer. After immigrating with his family to the United States as a young man, he studied art and began his literary career, writing in both English and Arabic. His romantic style was at the heart of a renaissance in modern Arabic literature, especially prose poetry, breaking away from the classical school. In Lebanon, he is still celebrated as a literary hero. He is chiefly known in the English-speaking world for The Prophet, an early example of inspirational fiction including a series of philosophical essays written in poetic English prose.

Présentation de l'éditeur

You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant–self. And that self too shall be a foundation. And I too am my own forerunner, for the long shadow stretching before me at sunrise shall gather under my feet at the noon hour. Yet another sunrise shall lay another shadow before me, and that also shall be gathered at another noon. Always have we been our own forerunners, and always shall we be. And all that we have gathered and shall gather shall be but seeds for fields yet unploughed. We are the fields and the ploughmen, the gatherers and the gathered. When you were a wandering desire in the mist, I too was there a wandering desire. Then we sought one another, and out of our eagerness dreams were born. And dreams were time limitless, and dreams were space without measure.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Book Tree,US
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 158509286X
• ISBN 13: 9781585092864
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 76
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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