The Gardens of Light
1991 novel by Amin Maalouf
2253061778 The Gardens of Light (French: Les jardins de lumière) is a 1991 novel by the French-Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf. It focuses on the Parthian religious thinker Mani, founder of Manichaeism.
Reception
David Guy wrote in The New York Times, "The Gardens of Light has the feel of a 1950's Hollywood epic, in which men gesture boldly and deliver words that deserve to be immediately carved in stone. ... Maalouf's epic style and wooden characters, as rendered here in Dorothy S. Blair's functional translation from the French, are burdensome. We follow Mani's actions, but we long for an imaginative journey into his inner life, some insight into how his liberal convictions were formed at a time when so much religious belief was marked by extreme factionalism and rigidity."[1]
Kirkus Reviews described the book as a "fine meditative historical novel", "obviously scrupulously researched", "intermittently discursive"", and "suffused with a (nicely translated) dramatic lyricism".[2]
See also
- 1991 in literature
- Contemporary French literature
References
- ^ Guy, David (1999-03-14). "The Gardens of Light". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-04-12.
- ^ "The Gardens of Light". Kirkus Reviews. 1999-02-01. Retrieved 2017-07-27.
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Amin Maalouf
- Leo Africanus (1986)
- Samarkand (1988)
- The Gardens of Light (1991)
- The First Century after Beatrice (1992)
- The Rock of Tanios (1993)
- Ports of Call (1996)
- Balthasar's Odyssey (2000)
- On the Isle of Antioch (2020)
- The Crusades Through Arab Eyes (1983)
- In the Name of Identity (1998)
- Adrift: How Our World Lost Its Way (2019)
- L'Amour de loin (2000)
- Adriana Mater (2006)
- La Passion de Simone (2006)
- Émilie (2010)
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