El Profeta / The Prophet

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Las doce ilustraciones en este volumen fueron reproducidas de los dibujos originales del autor. La obra maestra de Kahlil Gibran es uno de los mas queridos clasicos de nuestra epoca, un repositorio rico en sabiduria y alegria que ha inspirado a generaciones de lectores. Con poesia frugal y bellamente resonante, El profeta ofrece inolvidables palabras de esperanza y consolaci n sobre los temas del nacimiento, del amor, del matrimonio, de la muerte y de los otros hitos de la vida. Desde su publicaci n hace mas de setenta anos, El profeta ha sido traducido a mas de veinte idiomas y ha dado inspiraci n a millones de lectores, quienes encuentran en sus palabras la expresi n de los mas profundos impulsos, la mas profunda poesia, del coraz n humano.Ilustrados con los dibujos misticos de Gibran -comparados por Auguste Rodin a los de William Blake- El profeta es un volumen para disfrutar y al cual volver a lo largo de la vida. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "My all-time favorite collection of poems . . . Gibran's poetry always roots me in my humanity." -Rupi Kaur, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Milk and Honey, The Sun and Her Flowers, and Home Body The most famous work of spiritual fiction of the twentieth century, The Prophet is rooted in Kahlil Gibran's own experience as an immigrant and provides inspiration to anyone feeling adrift in a world in flux. As a prophet named Almustafa is about to board a ship to travel back to his homeland after twelve years in exile, he is stopped by a group of people who ask him to share his wisdom before he leaves. In twenty-eight poetic essays, he does so, offering profound and timeless insights on many aspects of life, including love, pain, friendship, family, beauty, religion, joy, sorrow, and death. An immediate success when first published in 1923, The Prophet is a modern classic, having been translated into more than forty languages and sold more than ten million copies in the United States alone. The message it imparts, of finding divinity through love, made it the bible of 1960s culture and continues to touch hearts and minds across generations and national borders. In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

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Kahlil Gibranwas born in 1883 in Lebanon and died in New York in 1931. His family emigrated to the United States in 1895. In his early teens, the artistry of Gibran's drawings caught the eye of his teachers and he was introduced to the avant-garde Boston artist, photographer, and publisher Fred Holland Day, who encouraged and supported Gibran in his creative endeavors. A publisher used some of Gibran's drawings for book covers in 1898, and Gibran held his first art exhibition in 1904 in Boston. In 1908, Gibran went to study art with Auguste Rodin in Paris for two years, and he later studied art in Boston. While most of Gibran's early writing was in Arabic, most of his work published after 1918 was in English. Gibran'sbest-known work isThe Prophet,a book composed of 28 poetic essays.