Khalil Gibran

See also: Khalil (homonymy)

Gibran Khalil Gibran (rear RTL جبرانخليلجبران) figure in good place among the poets and painters resulting from the the Middle East, grace in particular to its collection: the Prophet . Born in Lebanon (1883 with Bcharré - 1931 with New York), it then remained in Europe and especially in the United States where it passed the major part of its life. Christian of rite Maronite, his Church will judge heretic its third book, rebellious Esprits (the call of the prophet), which will be burned in public place by the Othoman capacity in 1908. One often compared it with William Blake.

Biography

1883 Birth on January 6th with Bcharré, in Lebanon, then Othoman and belonging to large Syria. He is baptized in the Christian religion Maronite from which his/her mother came.

1894 His/her father is imprisoned because unable to manage his inheritance.

1895 He emigrates in the United States with his family which is established in Boston, whereas the father remains alone in Lebanon.

1897 Return to Lebanon, Beirut, to follow the courses of the school of Wisdom Madrasat-Al-Hikmat.

1901 He travels to Greece, Italy and Spain and arrives at Paris where during two years he studies painting and completes his book the Rebellious Spirits .

1903 Gibran is recalled to Boston where die his/her mother, her brother and one of his/her sisters of tuberculosis. It starts an english language version of the Prophète , of which it had already outlined the Arabic broad outlines as of the fifteen years age and which it will work until 1923.

1904 It meets Mary Haskell, with which it maintains a very dense relation all its life during, between platonic love and artistic.

1905 Publication of its first Arabic book: the music ( Nubthah fi Fan Al-Musiqa ).

1908 It remains two years in Paris and studies with the Academy of the Art schools; it meets many artists: Rodin, Debussy, Maeterlinck, Rostand.

1910 Gibran is fixed at New York.

1923 Publication and immediate success of its work: the Prophet .

1928 Following health issues, he seeks refuge in alcohol, which will worsen its state little by little.

1931 Dead on April 10th in a hospital of New York, a cancer of the liver. Its body is repatriated with its request in the monastery Mar Sarkis, not far from Bcharré.

Works

Publications of living of Gibran:

  • 1905 Nubthah fi Fan Al-Musiqa ( the music )

  • 1906 Arayis Al-Muruj ( Nymphs of the valleys )
  • 1908 Al-Arwah Al-Mutamarridah ( Rebellious Spirits )
  • 1912 Al-Agniha Al-Mutakasirra ( broken wings )
  • 1914 Kitab Dam' ah wa Ibtisamah ( Tears and smiles )
  • 1918 The Madman (the insane one)
  • 1919 Al-Mawakib ( Book of the processions )
  • 1919 Twenty Drawings ( Twenty drawings )
  • 1920 Al 'Awasif ( the storms )
  • 1920 The Forerunner (the precursor)
  • 1923 The Prophet (the prophet)
  • 1926 Sand and Foam (Sand and scum)
  • 1927 Kingdom Off The Imagination
  • 1928 Jesus, his off Man (Jesus, sons of man)
  • 1931 The Earth God (God of the ground)

Posthumous publications:

  • 1932 The Wanderer ( wandering It )

  • 1925-33 The Garden off the Prophet ( the garden of the prophet )
  • 1934 Prose and Poems
  • 1927-33 Lazarus and his Beloved
  • 1959 has Coil-Portrait
  • 1960 off Thought and Meditations
  • 1962 Spiritual sayings
  • 1963 Voice the master ( the voice of eternal wisdom )
  • 1965 Mirrors off the Soul ( mirrors of the heart )
  • 1979 Death Of The Prophet
  • 1994 The Vision ( Visions of the prophet )
  • 1995 Eye off the Prophet ( the eye of the prophet )

Various texts and some of its preceding works were gathered under the titles: Wonders and processions , the treasure of wisdom , the buckled voice , Letters in Mary (May) Ziyadé , the take-off of the spirit, secrecies of the heart .

The Prophet

Written in English, the Prophète is a made poetic work of aphorisms and parabolas, delivered by a prophet in exile about to return at his place. To the great questions of the life, this one delivers to the people which accommodated it during twelve years of the simple and penetrating answers. Universal topics are approached, but the discussion thread remains the love. Thus it is says on the marriage:

“Fill up each one the cut of the other, but do not drink with the same cut. ”

Thus the Prophet is sometimes read at the time of marriages, primarily in the United States. Beside the great questions of the life practices, like the marriage or the children, the reader discovers the self-knowledge and the religion, conceived here like universal. Thus, which makes the success of the Prophet is his universalism, ready to make of it the book of bedside of each and everyone, carrying adhesion by great values like freedom, the love, the respect of the other. In that, the Prophet is a completely humanistic writing.

Critical works on Khalil Gibran

  • Collective, Gibran K. Gibran Pioneer of the Rebirth to come (April 10th, 1931 - April 10th, 2006) . Acts of the Conference held in Kaslik from April 3rd to 5th 2006 organized by the Faculty of Letters of the USEK and the Gibran National committee at the time of the 75e birthday of its death, Kaslik, Holy Spirit University, 2006.
  • Daniel S. Poetic Larangé, of the fable at Khalil Gibran (1883-1931). Misadventures of a literary and musical kind: maqâm , Paris, Harmattan, 2005 (People and cultures of the East) ISBN: 2-7475-9500-5.
  • Alexandre Najjar, Khalil Gibran, the author of the " Prophète" , Paris, Pygmalion, 2002 ISBN: 2-85704-777-0.

See too

External bonds

  • Pierre Richard interprets the Prophet of Khalil Gibran

  • My compatriots by '' Kahlil Gibran ''
  • complete Oeuvres of Khalil Gibran
  • the near total of the texts of Khalil Gibran in VO
  • Dictionnaire of the work of Khalil Gibran
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