著者名：

'Obeyd-e Zakani

出版元：

Jahan Books

頁数：

132p. 古書

刊行年：

1985

ISBN：

0936665017

Persian wit and humor -- Satire

Obeyd-e Zakani, who died in 1372 is among the great poets of Iran but little known in the West. This selection of his work is the first to be translated into English. Obeyd was a remarkable satirist and social critic who looked upon his world of extravagant indulgence and corruption with the censorious eyes of a Juvenal, and portrayed it with the cynicism and wit of a Voltaire, and the hilarious grotesqueness of a Rabelais. He used scathing stories and sardonic maxims to paint a world full of deceit, greed, lust, sycophancy, and perversion, where old values and virtues were scorned and extremes of wealth and poverty, violence and bloodshed were the order of the day.

Introduction
Ethics of the aristocrats
Definitions
The treatise of one hundred maxims
Risala-ye delgosha
Persian anecdotes
Rats against cats

No.

45420

価格：

1,511円