{"product_id":"leg-over-leg-9781479813292","title":"Leg over Leg","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinalist for the 2016 National Translation Award given by the American Literary Translators'' Association\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe life, birth, and early years of ''the Fariyaq''the alter ego of the Arab intellectual Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeg over Leg\u003c\/b\u003e recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of the Fariyaq, alter ego of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, a pivotal figure in the intellectual and literary history of the modern Arab world. The always edifying and often hilarious adventures of the Fariyaq, as he moves from his native Lebanon to Egypt, Malta, Tunis, England, and France, provide the author with grist for wide-ranging discussions of the intellectual and social issues of his time, including the ignorance and corruption of the Lebanese religious and secular establishments, freedom of conscience, women's rights, sexual relationships between men and women, the manners and customs of Europeans and Middle Easterners, and the differences between contemporary European an\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is not too early to state that the publication of this work, in this edition, is a game-changer. This is a foundational work of modern Arabic literature and its publication in English is long overdue but given how it is presented here, it was perhaps worth the wait. This edition, with helpful endnotes, the original Arabic text, and in a translation that both reads well and appears to closely mirror the original, seems, in almost every way, ideal I dont think Im exaggerating when I say that this is the most important literary publication of a translation into English, in terms of literary history and our understanding of it, in years * The Complete Review *\u003cbr\u003e...Leg Over Leg by the Lebanese intellectual Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, [has] long been held to be untranslatable and so [is] appearing, in [its] entirety, in English for the first time. -- Lydia Wilson * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eAl-Shidyaq, born in Lebanon in the early years of the nineteenth century, was a Zelig of the Arabic literary world, and his Leg Over Leg is a bawdy, hilarious, epically word-obsessed, and unclassifiable book, which has never been translated into English before. -- Sal Robinson * Moby Lives *\u003cbr\u003eHumphrey Davies has rendered one of the most challenging texts of Arabic literature, al-Shidyaq's al-Saq 'ala l-saq, accessible to a wide range of readers for the first time.... The reader is plunged into al-Shidyaq's critical, humorous, uninhibited, sometimes bitter but profoundly humane, and utterly original masterpiece. -- Hilary Kilpatrick * Journal of the American Oriental Society *\u003cbr\u003eHumphrey Davies translation, published in four dual-language volumes, is a triumph. He skillfully renders punning, rhyming prose without breaking the spell Leg Over Leg stands out for both its stylistic brazenness and the excellence of the translation. With this bilingual edition, the Library of Arabic Literature helps fill a large cultural gap and alters our view of Arabic literature and the formal trajectory of the novel outside the West. Any reader for whom the term \u0026amp; world literature is more than an empty platitude must read Humphrey Davies's translation. -- John Yargo * Los Angeles Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eWe're having a particularly good season for literary discoveries from the past, with recent publications of Volumes 1 and 2 of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq's 'Leg Over Leg' (1855)… -- Martin Riker * New York Times Book Review *\u003cbr\u003eHumphrey Daviess masterful translation makes accessible this unique and fascinating work, deserving of wider recognition and study [] The translation adroitly and sympathetically captures the linguistic exuberance and literary inventiveness of the original * Banipal Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eThe heroic achievement of award-winning translator Humphrey Davies marks the first ever English translation of this pivotal work An accessible, informative, and highly entertaining read * Banipal Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eIts contemporaneity is astonishing... It would be doing Leg Over Leg a massive disservice to not make it clear how funny it is. This is a book that for all its challenges, all its insight into humanity, all its place in history, had me regularly laughing out loud. * Music and Literature *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents     Leg Over Leg, Volume Three 1     Contents of the Book 4     Firing Up a Furnace 8     Love and Marriage 52     Contagion 108     Analepsis 126     Travel, and the Correction of a Common Misconception 134     A Banquet and Various Kinds of Hot Sauce 158     That Stinging Sensation You Feel When You Get Hot Sauce up Your     Nose 174     Dreams 176     The Second Dream 184     The Third Dream 190     Physicking the Foul of Breath 200     A Voyage and a Conversation 214     A Maqamah to Make One Stand 250     Raveningly Ravenously Famished 272     The Journey from the Monastery 280     Ecstasy 288     An Incitement to Nudity 290     A Drain 300     Assorted Wonders 326     A Metropolitan Theft 344     Book Four     Chapter 1: Unleashing a Sea 10     Chapter 2: A Farewell 28     Chapter 3: Assorted Pleas for Mercy 50     Chapter 4: The Rules for Retelling 62     Chapter 5: The Superiority of Women 72     Chapter 6: A Discussion 84     Chapter 7: Compare and Contrast 96     Chapter 8: A Voyage Festinate and Language Incomprehensibly and Inscrutably Intricate 112\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409055293783,"sku":"9781479813292","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781479813292.jpg?v=1730505269","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/leg-over-leg-9781479813292","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}