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You're all stupid Borges Babys, later editions of Fictions contained a story from 1936 that originally appeared in History of Eternity, called The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim, which is a review of a book in which a Law student in Bombay murders someone then flees across India, hoping to find the perfect man (Al-Mu'tasim). He finally reaches the palace, pulls back the curtain, and the book ends. The review then has like a page long footnote about the Conference of the Birds, and how The Approach to AL-Mu'tasim closely follows it in themes. It's great.
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TheManFromFOXHOUND posted:Finished the book last night. I found it interesting that my copy ended with another parable/allegory after the birds discover the Simorgh. From reading the introduction, it seems like there is an epilogue that wasn't included in the Penguin classics version, as well. If you're interested in more modern Arabic poetry then you should read Adonis. There might be other people writing poetry in Arabic atm but no one bothers talking about them because they're not Adonis. He also does cool essays on things like Sufism + Surrealism and Arabic poems from the past that are not written by him, Adonis.
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