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Kahlil Gibran: Beyond Borders
Kahlil G. Gibran
Jean Gibran
出版
Bloomsbury Publishing
, 2017-03-09
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers
Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
ISBN
1786692848
9781786692849
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=jbOfEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBook
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註釋
A comprehensive illustrated biography of
Kahlil Gibran
, Lebanese-American artist, poet and author of the best-selling inspirational fiction
The Prophet
.
Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-born artist, poet, writer and polymath who emigrated to America as a young man in the 1890s, where he became
a successful artist and prose poet
. His book
The Prophet
(1923), a series of twenty-six philosophical essays written in poetic English prose became a
world-wide bestseller
after a sluggish start, selling
40 million copies
, and becoming a particular favourite of the 1960s counterculture.
As a writer, Gibran encouraged a renaissance in Arab literature; as an artist he painted hundreds of canvases including portraits of artistic celebrities. Raised a Maronite Catholic, his spirituality thought
embraces
elements of other traditions including Sufi mysticism and the Baha'i faith.