Salome : English and Arabic : Facing Page Format (Oscar Wilde)
Description
ISBN: None
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Dar al Bihar (2004)
Pages: 109 Binding: Paperback
Description from the publisher:
Bilingual English-Arabic version of Salome.Dual language books. The English and Arabic pages are facing each other, matching one-on-one with English on the left page, Arabic on the right page. Easy reference for individuals not strong in one of the languages. Well known fiction titles for different interests and levels.
Description of Book:
Salome (or in French: Salomé ) is a tragedy by Oscar Wilde. The original 1891 version of the play was in French. Three years later an English translation was published. The play tells in one act the Biblical story of Salome, stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to her stepfather's dismay but to the delight of her mother Herodias, requests the head of Jokanaan (John the Baptist) on a silver platter as a reward for dancing the Dance of the Seven Veils.
Major Themes - Many view Wilde's Salomé as a superb composite of earlier treatments of the theme overlaid with Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck's characteristic methodical diction. Although the "kissing of the head" element was used in Heine and even Heywood's production, Wilde's ingenuity was to move it to the play's climax. While his debts are undeniable, there are some interesting contributions in Wilde's treatment, most notably being his persistent use of parallels between Salomé and the moon.Alice Guszalewicz as Salomé in the Richard Strauss opera, circa 1910. Richard Ellmann misidentified this in his 1987 book as of Oscar Wilde himself, the error being corrected in 1992.Scholars like Nassaar point out that Wilde employs a number of the images favored by Israel's kingly poets and that the moon is meant to suggest the pagan goddess Cybele, who, like Salomé, was obsessed with preserving her virginity and thus took pleasure in destroying male sexuality.
These special, condensed novels are intended for English speakers to learn Arabic, by reading side by side versions of these simplified famous novels.