Leg over Leg (eBook)

Volumes One and Two

Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq (Autor)

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2015
Nyu Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-8881-8 (ISBN)

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Finalist for the 2016 National Translation Award given by the American Literary Translators' AssociationThe life, birth, and early years of 'the Fariyaq' the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-ShidyaqLeg 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, all the while celebrating the genius and beauty of the classical Arabic language.Volumes One and Two follow the hapless Fariyaq through his youth and early education, his misadventures among the monks of Mount Lebanon, his flight to the Egypt of Muhammad 'Ali, and his subsequent employment with the first Arabic daily newspaper during which time he suffers a number of diseases that parallel his progress in the sciences of Arabic grammar, and engages in amusing digressions on the table manners of the Druze, young love, snow, and the scandals of the early papacy. This first book also sees the list of locations in Hell, types of medieval glue, instruments of torture, stars and pre-Islamic idols come into its own as a signature device of the work.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 complete English translation of this groundbreaking work.

Inhalt

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Raising a Storm 36
Chapter 2: A Bruising Fall and a Protecting Shawl 64
Chapter 3: Various Amusing Anecdotes 72
Chapter 4: Troubles and a Tambour 84
Chapter 5: A Priest and a Pursie, Dragging Pockets and Dry Grazing 92
Chapter 6: Food and Feeding Frenzies 108
Chapter 7: A Donkey that Brayed, a Journey Made, a Hope Delayed 116
Chapter 8: Bodega, Brethren, and Board 124
Chapter 9: Unseemly Conversations and Crooked Contestations 134
Chapter 10: Angering Women Who Dart Sideways Looks, and Claws
like Hooks 148
Chapter 11: That Which Is Long and Broad 162
Chapter 12: A Dish and an Itch 174
Chapter 13: A Maqamah, or, a Maqamah on “Chapter 13” 190
Chapter 14: A Sacrament 202
Chapter 15: The Priest’s Tale 212
Chapter 16: The Priest’s Tale Continued 222
Chapter 17: Snow 244
Chapter 18: Bad Luck 254
Chapter 19: Emotion and Motion 282
Chapter 20: The Difference between Market-men and Bag-men 312

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.10.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Library of Arabic Literature
• Reihe/Serie: Library of Arabic Literature
• Übersetzer: Humphrey Davies
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-4798-8881-8 / 1479888818
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-8881-8 / 9781479888818