Between Quran and Kafka: West-Eastern Affinities

by Navid Kermani

Book Overview

What connects Shiite passion plays with Brecht?s drama? Which of Goethe?s poems were inspired by the Quran? How can Ibn Arabi?s theology of sighs explain the plays of Heinrich von Kleist? And why did the Persian author Sadeq Hedayat identify with the Prague Jew Franz Kafka?

?One who knows himself and others will here too understand: Orient and Occident are no longer separable? in this new book, the critically acclaimed author and scholar...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509500340
• ISBN13: 9781509500345
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"