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- Leg Over Leg or the Turtle in the Tree Concerning the Fariyaq : W
- ISBN
- 9781479875757
- Subject Area
- Travel, Foreign Language Study, History
- Publication Name
- Leg over Leg : Volume Four
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Subject
- Arabic, Middle East / General
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Series
- Library of Arabic Literature Ser.
- Type
- Language Course
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 32.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 584 Pages
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Finalist for the 2016 National Translation Award given by the American Literary Translators' Association The life, birth, and early years of 'the Fariyaq'--the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of 'the Fariyaq,' alter ego of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, a pivotal figure in the intellectual and literary history of the modern Arab world. The always edifying and often hilarious adventures of the Fariyaq, as he moves from his native Lebanon to Egypt, Malta, Tunis, England and France, provide the author with grist for wide-ranging discussions of the intellectual and social issues of his time, including the ignorance and corruption of the Lebanese religious and secular establishments, freedom of conscience, women's rights, sexual relationships between men and women, the manners and customs of Europeans and Middle Easterners, and the differences between contemporary European and Arabic literatures. Al-Shidyaq also celebrates the genius and beauty of the classical Arabic language. Akin to Sterne and Rabelais in his satirical outlook and technical inventiveness, al-Shidyaq produced in Leg over Leg a work that is unique and unclassifiable. It was initially widely condemned for its attacks on authority, its religious skepticism, and its "obscenity," and later editions were often abridged. This is the first English translation of the work and reproduces the original Arabic text, published under the author's supervision in 1855.
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New York University Press
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1479875759
ISBN-13
9781479875757
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Product Key Features
Publication Name
Leg over Leg : Volume Four
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Arabic, Middle East / General
Publication Year
2014
Series
Library of Arabic Literature Ser.
Type
Language Course
Subject Area
Travel, Foreign Language Study, History
Number of Pages
584 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
32.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
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2013-007540
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Series Volume Number
30
Lc Classification Number
Pj7862.H48s213 2013
Volume Number
Vol. 4
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Al-Shidyaq, born in Lebanon in the early years of the nineteenth century, was a Zelig of the Arabic literary world, and his Leg Over Leg is a bawdy, hilarious, epically word-obsessed, and unclassifiable book, which has never been translated into English before, "The heroic achievement of award-winning translator Humphrey Davies marks the first ever English translation of this pivotal work… An accessible, informative, and highly entertaining read."- Banipal Magazine, We're having a particularly good season for literary discoveries from the past, with recent publications of Volumes 1 and 2 of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq's 'Leg Over Leg' (1855)..., Humphrey Davies translation, published in four dual-language volumes, is a triumph. He skillfully renders punning, rhyming prose without breaking the spellLeg Over Legstands out for both its stylistic brazenness and the excellence of the translation. With this bilingual edition, the Library of Arabic Literature helps fill a large cultural gap and alters our view of Arabic literature and the formal trajectory of the novel outside the West. Any reader for whom the term & world literature is more than an empty platitude must read Humphrey Davies's translation., Its contemporaneity is astonishing... It would be doing Leg Over Leg a massive disservice to not make it clear how funny it is. This is a book that for all its challenges, all its insight into humanity, all its place in history, had me regularly laughing out loud., "The heroic achievement of award-winning translator Humphrey Davies marks the first ever English translation of this pivotal work… An accessible, informative, and highly entertaining read."- Banipal Magazine ,, "It is not too early to state that the publication of this work, in this edition, is a game-changer. This is a foundational work of modern Arabic literature and its publication in English is long overdue-but given how it is presented here, it was perhaps worth the wait. This edition, with helpful endnotes, the original Arabic text, and in a translation that both reads well and appears to closely mirror the original, seems, in almost every way, ideal… I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say that this is the most important literary publication of a translation into English, in terms of literary history and our understanding of it, in years." - The Complete Review ,, "Al-Shidyaq, born in Lebanon in the early years of the nineteenth century, was a Zelig of the Arabic literary world, and his Leg Over Leg is a bawdy, hilarious, epically word-obsessed, and unclassifiable book, which has never been translated into English before…" -MobyLives,, ...Leg Over Leg by the Lebanese intellectual Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, [has] long been held to be untranslatable and so [is] appearing, in [its] entirety, in English for the first time., "Al-Shidyaq, born in Lebanon in the early years of the nineteenth century, was a Zelig of the Arabic literary world, and his Leg Over Leg is a bawdy, hilarious, epically word-obsessed, and unclassifiable book, which has never been translated into English before…" - MobyLives ,, "It is not too early to state that the publication of this work, in this edition, is a game-changer. This is a foundational work of modern Arabic literature and its publication in English is long overdue - but given how it is presented here, it was perhaps worth the wait. This edition, with helpful endnotes, the original Arabic text, and in a translation that both reads well and appears to closely mirror the original, seems, in almost every way, ideal… I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say that this is the most important literary publication of a translation into English, in terms of literary history and our understanding of it, in years." -The Complete Review,, It is not too early to state that the publication of this work, in this edition, is a game-changer. This is a foundational work of modern Arabic literature and its publication in English is long overduebut given how it is presented here, it was perhaps worth the wait. This edition, with helpful endnotes, the original Arabic text, and in a translation that both reads well and appears to closely mirror the original, seems, in almost every way, ideal I dont think Im exaggerating when I say that this is the most important literary publication of a translation into English, in terms of literary history and our understanding of it, in years., The heroic achievement of award-winning translator Humphrey Davies marks the first ever English translation of this pivotal work An accessible, informative, and highly entertaining read., "The heroic achievement of award-winning translator Humphrey Davies marks the first ever English translation of this pivotal work… An accessible, informative, and highly entertaining read."-Banipal Magazine,, "It is not too earlyto state that the publication of this work, in this edition, is a game-changer.This is a foundational work of modern Arabic literature and its publication inEnglish is long overdue-but given how it is presented here, it was perhapsworth the wait. This edition, with helpful endnotes, the original Arabic text,and in a translation that both reads well and appears to closely mirror theoriginal, seems, in almost every way, ideal… I don't think I'm exaggeratingwhen I say that this is the most important literary publication of atranslation into English, in terms of literary history and our understanding ofit, in years." - The Complete Review, "Humphrey Davies' masterful translation of Faris al-Shidyaq's Leg over Leg is the English-language reader's first introduction to the work of this foundational figure of Arabic letters. The protagonist leaves his native Lebanon to make a life for himself elsewhere as an itinerant scribe, poet, translator, editor, and author. This is a book about books, about conventions of writing, reading, bookmaking, cultural creation and crossings, bristling with puns and long digressions about the "oddities of language, including its rare words"--a preoccupation that makes Davies' translation all the more remarkable as a work of literature and scholarship both.", "Humphrey Davies' translation, published in four dual-language volumes, is a triumph. He skillfully renders punning, rhyming prose without breaking the spell… Leg Over Leg stands out for both its stylistic brazenness and the excellence of the translation. With this bilingual edition, the Library of Arabic Literature helps fill a large cultural gap and alters our view of Arabic literature and the formal trajectory of the novel outside the West. Any reader for whom the term 'world literature' is more than an empty platitude must read Humphrey Davies's translation."-John Yargo, Los Angeles Review of Books, "Al-Shidyaq, born inLebanon in the early years of the nineteenth century, was a Zelig of the Arabicliterary world, and his Leg Over Leg is a bawdy,hilarious, epically word-obsessed, and unclassifiable book, which has neverbeen translated into English before…" - MobyLives, "It is not too earlyto state that the publication of this work, in this edition, is a game-changer.This is a foundational work of modern Arabic literature and its publication inEnglish is long overdue-but given how it is presented here, it was perhapsworth the wait. This edition, with helpful endnotes, the original Arabic text,and in a translation that both reads well and appears to closely mirror theoriginal, seems, in almost every way, ideal... I don't think I'm exaggeratingwhen I say that this is the most important literary publication of atranslation into English, in terms of literary history and our understanding ofit, in years." - The Complete Review, "Its contemporaneity is astonishing... Itwould be doing Leg Over Leg a massive disservice to not makeit clear how funny it is. This is a book that for all its challenges, all itsinsight into humanity, all its place in history, had me regularly laughing outloud."- Music and Literature
Table of Content
Book Four 1 Contents of the Book Chapter 1: Unleashing a Sea Chapter 2: A Farewell Chapter 3: Assorted Pleas for Mercy Chapter 4: The Rules for Retelling 62 Chapter 5: The Superiority of Women 72 Chapter 6: A Discussion 84 Chapter 7: Compare and Contrast 96 Chapter 8: A Voyage Festinate and Language Incomprehensibly and Inscrutably Intricate Chapter 9: Form and Shapes 126 Chapter 10: A Passage and an Explanation 142 Chapter 11: A Translation and Some Advice 154 Chapter 12: Philosophical Reflections 172 Chapter 13: A Maqamah to Make You Walk 190 Chapter 14: Elegy for a Son 202 Chapter 15: Mourning 218 Chapter 16: The Tyrannical Behavior of the English 230 Chapter 17: A Description of Paris 248 Chapter 18: A Complaint and Complaints Chapter 19: A Metropolitan Theft and Miscellaneous Events Chapter 20: Selection of Poems and Verses Written by the Fariyaq in Paris as Previously Alluded To 308 Conclusion Letter to "Sidi Shaykh Mu?ammad, Sayyidna Metropolitan Bu?rus," etc. List of the Synonymous and Lexically Associated Words in This Book
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