« Sois heureux un instant, cet instant c'est ta vie ».
Remède à tous nos états d'âmes, la lecture des Quatrains d' Omar Khayy m est une joie dont on ne se lasse pas.
Le poète perse du XIe siècle appelle aux plaisirs simples, aux soirées amicales faites d'ivresse, de musique et de danse.
Une ode à la liberté toujours aussi lue, citée et adorée dans le monde entier.

Quatrains

Omar Khayyâm avant Saadi et Hâfiz : les trois grands poètes persans reparaissent en Carré Poésie chez Seghers !

Poète, éditeur, résistant et traducteur, Pierre Seghers, qui n'eut de cesse de défendre les poésies du monde, se consacra, de 1973 à 1978, à la traduction des trois grands poètes persans : Saadi, Hâfiz et Omar Khayyâm. Publiés respectivement en 1977, 1978 et 1979, ces trois titres reparaissent aujourd'hui chez Seghers, à commencer par Les Rubâ'iyât d'Omar Khayyâm en février 2024.

Omar Khayyâm, poète, philosophe et savant persan le plus célèbre de son temps, est l'auteur des rubâ'iyât. Écrits en persan et traduits dans toutes les langues, ces quatrains qui ont fait sa renommée célèbrent la vie et ses plaisirs (notamment l'amour et le vin), invitent à une élévation spirituelle.

Dans sa traduction française, Pierre Seghers s'est attaché à refléter au plus près la présence, le mouvement, les inflexions et le naturel de la parole du poète. Miroir de réflexion, de sagesse et de plaisirs, ce titre offre un éclairage unique sur la poésie persane.

Les Rubâ'iyât

The rubaiyat are a series of poems or 'stanzas' by the famous 12th century Persian atronomer and philosopherThe Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Persian: رباعیات عمر خیام‎) is the title that Edward FitzGerald gave to his translation of a selection of poems, originally written in Persian and numbering about a thousand, attributed to Omar Khayyám (1048–1131), a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. A ruba'i is a two-line stanza with two parts (or hemistichs) per line, hence the word rubáiyát (derived from the Arabic language root for "four"), meaning "quatrains". (Courtesy: Wikipedia)(less)

Roubaïates par Omar Khayyam - Ghazels par Mohammed Hafiz -

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Rubayat

Les quatrains millénaires d'Omar Khayyâm, à la gloire de l'amour et du vin, n'ont rien perdu de leur saveur. Bien au contraire, dans un monde qui semble encore chercher sa route, les écrits du poète persan lancent des cris d'espoir. Une sagesse toute simple, des paroles à boire, des phrases qui montent comme vrilles de treille. Dans la main de Lassaâd Métoui, Khayyâm rime désormais avec calame. L'encre calligraphe prend un parfum de vin, et laisse des arabesques à déguster sans modération.

L'amour, le désir, & le vin

Version Bilingue Français - Persan.Les deux paraphrases anglaises de Fitzgerald (1859 et 1868) les ont fait connaître en Europe, mais il restait à leur rendre justice par une version française rimée et rythmée. C'est le pari que réussit ici Vincent-Mansour Monteil qui en a choisi cent soixante-douze. Les Quatrains sont suivis de neuf ghazal (ballades) de Hâfez de Shirâz, mort en 1389, dont Goethe, dès 1819, dans son Divan d'Occident et d'Orient, a célébré l'immense génie poétique. Deux chefs-d'oeuvre de la poésie universelle. (actes-sud.fr)

Quatrains - Ballades

"We may look upon Omar as a deeply learned man, following his own convictions, who, tortured with the question of existence, and finding no solution to life in Musulman dogmas, worked out for himself a regular conception of life based on Sufistic Mysticism; a man who, without discarding belief, smiled ironically at the inconsistencies and peculiarities of the Islam of his time, which left many minds dissatisfied in the fourth and fifth centuries, needing as it did vivification. It found this in the person of Ghazzali, who in this movement assigned the proper place to the Mystic element. Omar was a preacher of moral purity and of a contemplative life; one who loved his God and struggled to master the eternal, the good, and the beautiful."

The Sufistic Quatrains

Quatrains ruba iyat

The Reviewer to whom I owe the Particulars of Omar's Life concludes his Review by comparing him with Lucretius, both as to natural Temper and Genius, and as acted upon by the Circumstances in which he lived. Both indeed were men of subtle, strong, and cultivated Intellect, fine Imagination, and Hearts passionate for Truth and Justice; who justly revolted from their Country's false Religion, and false, or foolish, Devotion to it; but who fell short of replacing what they subverted by such better Hope as others, with no better Revelation to guide them, had yet made a Law to themselves. Lucretius indeed, with such material as Epicurus furnished, satisfied himself with the theory of a vast machine fortuitously constructed and acting by a Law that implied no Legislator; and so composing himself into a Stoical rather than Epicurean severity of Attitude, sat down to contemplate the mechanical Drama of the Universe which he was part Actor in; himself and all about him (as in his own sublime description of the Roman Theatre) discolored with the lurid reflex of the Curtain suspended between the Spectator and the Sun. Omar, more desperate, or more careless of any so complicated System as resulted in nothing but hopeless Necessity, flung his own Genius and Learning with a bitter or humorous jest into the general Ruin which their insufficient glimpses only served to reveal; and, pretending sensual pleasure, as the serious purpose of Life, only diverted himself with speculative problems of Deity, Destiny, Matter and Spirit, Good and Evil, and other such questions, easier to start than to run down, and the pursuit of which becomes a very weary sport at last!

Quatrains

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