Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings - Couverture rigide

Ferdowsi

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1631494465 ISBN 13 : 9781631494468

Editeur : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Vividly translated and lushly illustrated, this edition of the Persian epic Shahnameh is fully illuminated for new audiences.

Ferdowsi's epic poem Shahnameh is part myth, part history--it begins with the legend of the birth of the Persian nation and its tumultuous history. It contains magical birds, and superhuman heroes, and centuries-long battles. Written over 1,000 years ago, it was meant to protect Persian collective memory amdist a turbulent sea cultural storms. Originally written in couplets, the new translation and adaptation by Ahmad Sadri retells the mythological tales in prose format. The spectacular illustrations in this edition were created from elements culled from thousands of illuminated manuscripts, lithographs, and miniatures dating from the thirteenth through nineteenth centuries, each panel becomes a new work of art, an exquisite collage of traditional forms.

Biographie de l'auteur :

A little over a thousand years ago the Persian poet Ferdowsi of Tous collected and put into heroic verse the millennium-old mythological and epic traditions of Iran. It took him thirty years to write the sixty thousand verses that comprise the Shahnameh or "The Book of Kings." This monumental work begins with legends of the birth of the Persian nationhood and ends with the Arab conquest of Iran. Written in the aftermath of that national trauma, Shahnameh was meant to harbor the Persian collective memory, language, and culture in a turbulent sea of many historical storms.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1631494465
• ISBN 13: 9781631494468
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 592
• Illustrateur: Rahmanian Hamid