Diván

by Yunus Emre, Clara Janés (Translator)

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About the author

Yunus Emre (1238?–1320?) was a Turkish poet and Sufi mystic. He has exercised immense influence on Turkish literature, from his own day until the present. Because Yunus Emre is, after Ahmet Yesevi and Sultan Veled, one of the first known Turkish poets to have composed works in the spoken Turkish of his own age and region rather than in Persian or Arabic, his diction remains very close to the popular speech of his contemporaries in Central and Western Anatolia. This is also, it should be noted, the language of a number of anonymous folk-poets, folk-songs, fairy tales, riddles (tekerlemeler), and proverbs.

Reviews

[Valentín Serrano García · Rating 4 out of 5]

Es de destacar la notable introducción de Clara Janes a los avatares y aroma místico de la poesía del primer escritor que se expresó en la lengua turco-otomana.

Los poemas, por su parte, traducidos con mimo, dejan entrever la tradición sufí en la línea de Rumi, mas con sorpresas.