La voix de l'éternelle sagesse

Ali spezzate, il primo e unico romanzo di Kahlil Gibran, adesso anche in edizione e-book. La vicenda particolare, quella autobiografica di un amore tragicamente deluso, è punto di partenza di una sublime riflessione sull'amore. C'è un'insolita lucidità nei due giovani che si incontrano sotto le stelle del Libano nei giardini di Ali spezzate, una capacità di delineare con chiarezza la propria situazione interiore e gli sconvolgimenti che l'amore provoca in loro. L'immediata frustrazione del desiderio li rende maturi, li obbliga a compiere delle scelte anche radicali e, in tutto questo, a illustrare agli occhi del lettore le altezze più vertiginose che un legame tra spiriti assonanti dischiude agli esseri umani. Le ali degli amanti, seppur spezzate, definiscono la perfetta traiettoria di un volo verso vette raggiungibili solo in una parabola d'amore.

Ali spezzate

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.

The Forerunner

"انظر يا حبيبي .. انظر يا عريس نفسي كيف وقف الحساد حول مضجعنا .. انظر عيونهم المحدقة بنا و اسمع صرير أسنانهم وتكسّر ضلوعهم. قد انتظرتني طويلًا يا سليم .. فها أنذا قد كسرت القيود و فككت السلاسل، فلنُسرعنّ نحو الشمس فقد طال وقوفنا في الظل. ها قد انمحت الرسوم و انحجبت الأشياء فلم اعد أرى سواك يا حبيبي.. هاشفتاي فاقتبل أنفاسي الأخيرة. هلُمّ نذهب يا سليم، فقد رفع الحب أجنحته و سبح أمامنا نحو دائرة النور.و ألقت العروس صدرها على صدر حبيبها فامتزجت دماؤها بدمائه، و أحنت رأسها على عنقه، و ظلّت عيناها محدقتين بعينيه" !

les esprits rebelles

Le Calligraphe, Le Poète et La Paix

Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) was a Lebanese American of Assyrian descent, an artist, poet and writer. He was born Gibran Khalil Gibran in Lebanon (at the time a Syrian Province of the Ottoman Empire) and spent much of his productive life in the United States. While most of Gibran's early writings were in Syriac and Arabic, most of his work published after 1918 was in English. Gibran also took part in the New York Pen League, also known as the "immigrant poets" (al-mahjar), alongside other important Lebanese American authors such as Ameen Rihani ("the father of Lebanese American literature"), Mikhail Naimy and Elia Abu Madi. Gibran's best-known work is The Prophet, a book composed of 26 poetic essays, first written in English in 1923. The Prophet remains famous to this day, having been translated into more than 20 languages. Other works in English include: Spirits Rebellious, (1908), The Broken Wings (1912), A Tear and a Smile (1914), The Forerunner (1920), Sand and Foam (1926), Jesus the Son of Man (1928), The Earth Gods (1929), The Wanderer (1932) and The Garden of the Prophet (1933).

L'errant

Long poème en prose écrit en anglais par un auteur libanais, Le Prophète est un chef-d'oeuvre dont le succès ne s'est jamais démenti depuis sa parution en 1923. Personnage imaginaire, ce prophète livre sa doctrine spirituelle, sous forme de maximes et d'allégories, en répondant aux aspirations profondes de l'homme : connaissance de soi, croyance, distinction du bien et du mal, mais aussi amitié, mariage, plaisir... Entre questions métaphysiques et hymne à la beauté, le texte garde tout son mystère et sa puissance de suggestion. Comme l'écrit le poète syrien Adonis, Gibran a voulu «faire éclore dans l'homme tout ce qui le dépasse et tout ce qui est plus grand que lui : l'amour, la joie, la révolte, la liberté». Un message de sagesse que seule la poésie, dans sa fulgurance, peut faire éclore.

Le Prophète

Kahlil Gibran';s masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Published in 1923, it has been translated into more than twenty languages, and the American editions alone have sold more than nine million copies.The Prophet is a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, and, above all, inspirational. Gibran';s musings are divided into twenty-eight chapters covering such sprawling topics as love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, housing, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death.Each essay reveals deep insights into the impulses of the human heart and mind. The Chicago Post said of The Prophet: "Cadenced and vibrant with feeling, the words of Kahlil Gibran bring to one';s ears the majestic rhythm of Ecclesiastes . . . If there is a man or woman who can read this book without a quiet acceptance of a great man';s philosophy and a singing in the heart as of music born within, that man or woman is indeed dead to life and truth."With twelve full-page drawings by Gibran, this beautiful work makes an incredible gift for anyone seeking enlightenment and inspiration.From the Hardcover edition.

The prophet

The Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays written in English in 1923 by the Lebanese-American artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. In the book, the prophet Almustafa who has lived in the foreign city of Orphalese for 12 years is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a group of people, with whom he discusses many issues of life and the human condition. The book is divided into chapters dealing with love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, houses, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death.

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