Rumi'S Little Book of Love and LaughterAuthor :
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Published : Monday 31 October 2016
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Rowdy, ecstatic and sometimes stern, these teaching stories and fables reveal new and very human properties in Rumis vision. Included here are the notorious "Latin parts" that Reynold Nicholson felt were too unseemly to appear in English in his 1920s translation. For Rumi, anything that human beings do - however compulsive - affords a glimpse into the inner life.Here are more than 40 fables or teaching stories that deal with love, laughter, death, betrayal and the soul. The stories are exuberant, earthy and bursting with vitality - much like a painting by Hieronymus Bosch or Chaucers Canterbury Tales. The characters are guilty, lecherous, tricky, ribald and finally possessors of opened souls.Barks writes: "These teaching stories are a kind of scrimshaw - intricately carved, busy figures, confused and threatening and weirdly funny."This is an entertaining collection from one of the greatest spiritual poets of all time, rendered by his most popular translator."The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers dont finally meet somewhere. Theyre in each other all along."--Rumi
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