Yusuf Saadi Books

Saadi stands as one of the foremost Persian poets of the medieval era, celebrated not only in Persian-speaking regions but also referenced in Western works. He is lauded for the exceptional quality of his writing and the profound depth of his social and moral insights. His literary contributions, exemplified by works like Bostan and Gulistan, represent masterful achievements within the classical literary tradition. Saadi's writing, comprising both verse and prose, features compelling narratives and personal anecdotes interwoven with concise poems offering aphorisms, advice, and witty observations, revealing a keen understanding of life's absurdities and contrasting the vulnerability of those dependent on rulers with the independence of dervishes.

Pluviophile
80 pages
3 hours of reading
4.4(45)Add rating
Pluviophile veers through various poetic visions and traditions in search of the sacred within and beyond language. Its poems continually revitalize form, imagery, and sonancy to reconsider the ways we value language, beauty, and body. The collection houses sonnets and other shorter poems between larger, more meditative runes. One of these longer poems, “The Place Words Go to Die,” winner of The Malahat Review’s 2016 Far Horizons Award for Poetry, imagines an underworld where words are killed and reborn, shedding their signifiers like skin to reenter a symbiotic relationship with the human, where “saxum [is] sacrificed and born again as saxifrage.” From here the poems shift to diverse locations, from Montreal to Kolkata, from the moon to the gates of heaven.
Rosengarten
Saadi: Rosengarten Die Erzählungssammlung »Rosengarten« wurde von Sa'di Mosleh od-Din 1258 verfasst. Es ist das populärste Prosawerk der persischen Literatur. Die vorliegende Fasssung wurde von Karl Heinrich Graf nach dem Text und dem arabischen Kommentare Sururi's aus dem Persischen übersetzt. Neuausgabe mit einer Biographie des Autors. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2018. Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe: Sa'dî, Musliheddîn: Der Rosengarten. 4.–6. Tsd., übers. v. Karl Heinrich Graf, München: Hyperionverlag, 1923 Die Paginierung obiger Ausgabe wird in dieser Neuausgabe als Marginalie zeilengenau mitgeführt. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage. Gesetzt aus der Minion Pro, 11 pt.

Pluviophile

Rosengarten