Book Description
First published in the 1920s, this book attempts to provide the reader with a guide to living. Gibran lets his protagonist, called simply the prophet, deliver homilies on a variety of topics central to daily life: love marriage and children, work and play, possessions, beauty, truth, joy and sorrow and death.
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In a distant, timeless place, a mysterious prophet walks the sands. At the moment of his departure, he wishes to offer the people gifts but possesses nothing. The people gather round, each asks a question of the heart, and the man's wisdom is his gift. It is Gibran's gift to us, as well, for Gibran's prophet is rivaled in his wisdom only by the founders of the world's great religions. On the most basic topics--marriage, children, friendship, work, pleasure--his words have a power and lucidity that in another era would surely have provoked the description "divinely inspired." Free of dogma, free of power structures and metaphysics, consider these poetic, moving aphorisms a 20th-century supplement to all sacred traditions--as millions of other readers already have.
--Brian Bruya
About Author
Kahlil Gibran, poet, philosopher, and artist was born in Lebanon, in 1883, and received his primary education in Beruit before emigrating with his parents to Boston in 1895. In 1989 he returned to Lebanon to continue his studies in Arabic before returning to Boston in 1903, around which time he met Mart Haskell, who would become his lifelong benefactor. In 1912, he settled in New York City and devoted himself to writing (both in Arabic and English) and to painting. Gibran died in 1931.
Book Dimension :
length: (cm)19.8 width:(cm)12.6
哈里利·纪伯伦 Gibran Khalil Gibran,1883年1月6日-1931年4月10日),黎巴嫩诗人,代表作:《泪与笑》、《沙与沫》、《先知》。
纪伯伦出生于黎巴嫩(当时属奥斯曼帝国统治)的一个马龙派天主教家庭。幼年未受正规学校教育。后随家庭移居美国。在美国上学时显露出艺术天赋。"Kahlil"的产生就是因为在美国学校的记录错误。1908年赴巴黎师从罗丹学习艺术。后兴趣转向文学,初期用阿拉伯语,后用英语进行写作。纪伯伦的许多作品都带有基督教色彩。1931年逝世于美国纽约,遗体葬于黎巴嫩。
外界评价:作家冰心将纪伯伦和泰戈尔放在一起评价说:“泰戈尔是贵族出身,家境优越,自幼受过良好教育。他的作品感情充沛,语调明快,用辞华美。格调也更天真,更欢畅,更富神秘色彩。而纪伯伦是贫苦出身,他的作品更像一个饱经沧桑的老人在讲为人处世的哲理,于平静中流露出淡淡的悲凉。” @wiki
这世上有这样一本书,他是最伟大的书 它包含了这个世界的秘密,写说着真理,记述着美,款款深情地讲着人类于神灵的感情 我读了这本书,然后烧了他 众人都责备我,憎恨我 但又认为我读了最伟大的书,成了仅次于神的智者 因而又崇拜我,仰慕我,以百花的身躯装饰我的长发,以清香...
评分 评分描述纪伯伦的作品是困难的,尤其对于《先知》:分析太僵硬而全无意趣,概括太浅薄而隔靴搔痒,至于印象的鉴赏,更如韦勒克在《文学理论》中所讥讽的——不过是艺术品的拙劣模仿。接下来我说的话,对纪伯伦作品发表的意见,也将不免于以上几种批评。但是,假使话语是真诚的,自...
评分从来没觉得诗是这样平易近人的东西。 一直以来都不这么觉得,虽然李白的床前明月光也是很通俗易懂。我也看过很多翻译过来的诗,不是意境全在翻译中成了渣滓,就是看不懂其中深邃的含义,只能望诗兴叹,感慨自己水平低得另人发指。 《先知》就这样颠覆了我的习惯。我从书架上...
评分大一的时候,最好的朋友手捧先知读的心潮澎湃…… 这几天我也在读,同样心神荡漾。 读着读着,心会慢慢平静下来。 "Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For ove is sufficient unto love." "Love ...
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评分很不错,能通过几个比喻将人生的几个苦说的比较透彻
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评分各种On。PS,书里有Gary身上的各种味道,想了。
评分各种On。PS,书里有Gary身上的各种味道,想了。
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