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Chronicles of Majnun Layla and Selected Poems

✍ Scribed by Haddad, Qassim; Ghazoul, Ferial; Verlenden, John

Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Weight: 246 KB
Edition: First edition
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 0815652887

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✦ Synopsis

"Chronicles of Majnun Layla and Selected Poems brings together in one volume Haddad's seminal work and a considerable selection of poems from his oeuvre, stretching over forty years. The central poem, Chronicles of Majnun Layla, recasts the seventh-century myth into a contemporary, postmodern narrative that revels in the foibles of oral transmission, weaving a small side cast of characters into the fabric of the poem. Haddad portrays Layla as a daring woman aware of her own needs and desires and not afraid to articulate them. The author succeeds in reviving this classical work of Arabian love while liberating it from its puritanical dimension and tribal overtones."--Amazon.com.

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