Gilgamesh's Snake and Other Poems
Subtitle: Bilingual Edition
Publisher: Syrcause University Press
Published: Apr 18, 2016
Language: ara; eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9780815610717
Description: "The Epic of Gilgamesh is perhaps the greatest surviving work of early Mesopotamian literature. According to legend, Gilgamesh built the city walls of Uruk, modern-day Iraq, to protect his people from external threats. Although the epic records events from more than four thousand years ago, those events echo many of the social and cultural concerns of Iraq today. In this luminous bilingual collection of poems, Ghareeb Iskander offers a personal response to the epic. Iskander's modern-day Gilgamesh is a nameless Iraqi citizen who witnessed the fall of the dictatorship, who exists in a constant state of threat, and who dreams, not about eternity, but simply about life. While Gilgamesh was searching for the elixir of life, Iskander's hero is searching for consolation"-- Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Source title: Gilgamesh's Snake and Other Poems: Bilingual Edition (Middle East Literature In Translation)