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Quest of the Exiled Soul |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / COMMENTARY |
| Author: Güneli Gün |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/2003 |
| Size: 3,644 Words, 22,275 Characters |
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Pico Iyer, whose politically charged travel books have taken readers to exploited paradises of our globalized globe, now has given us Abandon, a heady novel that's both intoxicating and intellectually engaging. The book's driving force is a quest after the intoxicated and intoxicating poetry of the great thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi, who, drunk on divine love, abandoned himself to spiritual ecstasy. It's fitting that the author has made good travel plans for his hero on a mystical transport out of the academic bubble.
Who was Rumi?
Before embarking on the trip into Abandon, it might be useful to review the historical personality of Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi, the hidden teacher who informs this book. Even before doing that, the reader must be warned that the outline of Rumi's biogr...
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...rks' translations in his novel; in fact, one of the Rumi adepts he has Macmillan consult is a poet who looks and sounds much like Coleman Barks. After all, Barks has devoted himself to Rumi with such abandon that he has become Rumi; or he is both Coleman Barks and Rumi, which is the passionate union the best translators, or readers, as well as lovers, hope to attain: to be oneself and another.
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