The Mystery of Conscience (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781329316379)

This book introduces a collection of Fazil Iskander's poetry in English. This selection of 70 poems of the master of Russian and Abkhazian Literature Fazil Iskander, nominated for the Nobel Prize, presents the poetry that is wise and beautiful in its philosophy. It embraces poems by Fazil Iskander, written by him during the span of time bridging the twentieth and twenty first century, from 1953 to 2013. They organically intertwine the intricate layers of people's lives, their intriguing fates, interconnectedness and cultural phenomena. In his poems, there is always an inner subtext behind the exterior subject.This book of poetic translations also contains an article on the art of Fazil Iskander by a historian Roman Gosin, and an essay on Fazil Iskander's poetry, written by a linguist Sophia Manukova, who made this first publication possible by selecting and translating his poetry. Sophia Manukova is a professor of English at the City College of San Francisco, California.

Author: Fazil Iskander,Sophia Manukova
ISBN-10: 1329316371
ISBN-13: 9781329316379
Publisher: Lulu.com
Language: English
Published: 07/10/2015
Pages: 150
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.35d