The Parables of Kahlil Gibran: An Interpretation of his Writings and His Art

Format: Trade paperback

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Size: 5.25"x8.0"

Pages: 158pp., 1967 Citadel Press, New York edition

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Kahlil Gibran, who has been described as "The Dante of the 20th Century," "The Immortal Prophet of Lebanon," and "The Savant of His Age," used the technique of the parable to describe the nature of the distances between man and man and to suggest the means whereby these distances could be spanned.

This study examines and correlates Gibran's writings and his art, tracing the transition from early disillusionment to the mellow philosophy of the later years.

In the words of the author, "Gibran's parables delineate repeatedly the possibility that man's dreams or fancy, which are man's ability to perceive the ideal or universal character of experience, can, rather than separate man from man, create a communion or a sharing in the existent spiritual essence of man. In this possibility lies man's only hope of resolving the recurrent, useless conflicts in himself and consequently in earthly experience, which collectively is called civilization."