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portada The Book of Delight and Other Papers
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Language
English
Pages
182
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.9x15.2x1 cm
Weight
0.25 kg.
ISBN13
9781926842516
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The Book of Delight and Other Papers

Israel Abrahams (Author) · Theophania Publishing · Paperback

The Book of Delight and Other Papers - Abrahams, Israel

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Synopsis "The Book of Delight and Other Papers"

Joseph Zabara has only in recent times received the consideration justly due to him. Yet his "Book of Delight," finished about the year 1200, is more than a poetical romance. It is a golden link between folk-literature and imaginative poetry. The style is original, and the framework of the story is an altogether fresh adaptation of a famous legend. The anecdotes and epigrams introduced incidentally also partake of this twofold quality. The author has made them his own, yet they are mostly adapted rather than invented. Hence, the poem is as valuable to the folklorist as to the literary critic. For, though Zabara's compilation is similar to such well-known models as the "Book of Sindbad," the Kalilah ve-Dimnah, and others of the same class, yet its appearance in Europe is half a century earlier than the translations by which these other products of the East became part of the popular literature of the Western world. At the least, then, the "Book of Delight" is an important addition to the scanty store of the folk-lore records of the early part of the thirteenth century. The folk-lore interest of the book is, indeed, greater than was known formerly, for it is now recognized as a variant of the Solomon-Marcolf legend.

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