Impostures(1st Edition)
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Al A Ara Ra ,Michael Cooperson ,Abdelfattah Kilito
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ISBN: 1479810568, 978-1479810567
Book publisher: NYU Press
Book Price $0 : One Of The Wall Street Journal's Top 10 Books Of The YearWinner, 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, Translation CategoryShortlist, 2021 National Translation AwardFinalist, 2021 PROSE Award, Literature CategoryFifty Rogueâ??s Tales Translated Fifty WaysAn Itinerant Con Man. A Gullible Eyewitness Narrator. Voices Spanning Continents And Centuries. These Elements Come Together In Impostures, A Groundbreaking New Translation Of A Celebrated Work Of Arabic Literature.Impostures Follows The Roguish AbÅ« Zayd Al-SarÅ«jÄ« In His Adventures Around The Medieval Middle Eastâ??we Encounter Him Impersonating A Preacher, Pretending To Be Blind, And Lying To A Judge. In Every Escapade He Shows Himself To Be A Brilliant And Persuasive Wordsmith, Composing Poetry, Palindromes, And Riddles On The Spot. Award-winning Translator Michael Cooperson Transforms Arabic Wordplay Into English Wordplay Of His Own, Using Fifty Different Registers Of English, From The Distinctive Literary Styles Of Authors Such As Geoffrey Chaucer, Mark Twain, And Virginia Woolf, To Global Varieties Of English Including Cockney Rhyming Slang, Nigerian English, And Singaporean English. Featuring Picaresque Adventures And Linguistic Acrobatics, Impostures Brings The Spirit Of This Masterpiece Of Arabic Literature Into English In A Dazzling Display Of Translation.An English-only Edition.
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