Dans la série Les petits livres de Khalil Gibran , ses récits et ses poèmes sur le thème de l’amour demeurent parmi les plus connus. Pour Khalil Gibran, l’amour englobe la passion, le désir, l’amour idéalisé, la justice, l’amitié mais aussi le défi d’aimer l’étranger, le voisin ou l’ennemi. Voici, dans cette compilation réalisée par Neil Douglas-Klotz, plus de cent fables, aphorismes, paraboles, récits et poèmes par cette voix visionnaire du réconfort, de l’amour et de la tolérance.
Kahlil Gibran (Arabic: جبران خليل جبران) was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer. Born in the town of Bsharri in modern-day Lebanon (then part of Ottoman Mount Lebanon), as a young man he emigrated with his family to the United States where he studied art and began his literary career. In the Arab world, Gibran is regarded as a literary and political rebel. His romantic style was at the heart of a renaissance in modern Arabic literature, especially prose poetry, breaking away from the classical school. In Lebanon, he is still celebrated as a literary hero. He is chiefly known in the English-speaking world for his 1923 book The Prophet, an early example of inspirational fiction including a series of philosophical essays written in poetic English prose. The book sold well despite a cool critical reception, gaining popularity in the 1930s and again, especially in the 1960s counterculture. Gibran is the third best-selling poet of all time, behind Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu.