Obeyd-E Zakani, Ethics of the Aristocrats and Other Satirical Works (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781933823225)

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.

Author: Nizam Al-Din Ubayd Zakani, Obeyd-E Zakani, Nezam Al Obeyd-E Zakani
ISBN-10: 1933823224
ISBN-13: 9781933823225
Publisher: Mage Publishers
Language: English
Published: 12/15/2007
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.98w x 0.35d