Abdul Azim Gharib
Auteur de Montachab-e Kalila va Dimna
Œuvres de Abdul Azim Gharib
Montachab-e Kalila va Dimna 1 exemplaire
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a monument of Sanskrit narrative literature dating from the third or fourth century A.D.
The books of fables and didactic short stories comprising the Panchatantra belong to the frame-story genre. The work, with its beast fables and folkloric plots, allegorically depicts Hindu society, satirically mirroring social relations.
Because of its popular orientation, the Panchatantra was widely distributed and had an important influence on world literature. In the mid-sixth century it was translated into Old Persian. This translation, which has not survived, was the basis for an Arabic version, known as "Kalila and Dimna" (about A.D. 750). Through the intermediary of a Hebrew translation completed between the 13th and 16th centuries, the Arabic version in turn was the basis of numerous translations into European languages.… (plus d'informations)