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Absurdity And Metaphysical Rebellion In The Philosophies Of Albert Camus And Omar Khayyam, Lynn Alsatie
Absurdity And Metaphysical Rebellion In The Philosophies Of Albert Camus And Omar Khayyam, Lynn Alsatie
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The first time Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyiat were brought to the Western world, it was through a translation from their original Persian to English by Edward Fitzgerald in 1859. Over the next century, Khayyam’s verses saw extraordinary popular success among intellectuals both in England and beyond. This paper, however, explores what these verses meant to Persians in Omar Khayyam’s context, long before the quatrains reached the West. Although whether the meaning of his poetry is esoteric or hedonistic in nature is debated, his quatrains express an existential longing and grieving that can be compared to parallel feelings described by Albert Camus …