The Prophet is Ji Bolun's masterpiece, and it is called "the most precious gift from the East to the West". It has brought great fame and honor to Ji Bolun, and even its literary status is comparable to Tagore's. He and Tagore are considered as two dazzling oriental superstars in the world literary world. Ji Bolun, like Tagore, pushed oriental literature to the world.
The birth of the prophet shocked and delighted western literature. Ji Bolun's writing is so beautiful that it contains the rationality and romance of the East, which has set off a wave of oriental literature in the western world.
Ji Bolun's The Prophet is poetic, soft and concise, fluent and free and easy. His diverse and rich metaphors got rid of the monotony and simplification of words and rose to a wonderful image and a symbol with rich meaning.
About the author:
Ji Bolun was born in Beshi, a small mountain village in northern Lebanon. From 65438 to 0895, he moved to the United States with his family and began to show his artistic talent when he was educated in the United States. 1898 became interested in literature after returning to China. 1903 began to publish short articles in new york Arabic newspaper Expatriate at the rate of $2 per week.
From 65438 to 0906, Bride of the Grassland and Rebellious Soul were released one after another. 1908, went to America again. 19 1 1 in winter, the wing is broken. 1In April, 920, he served as the president of the "Pen Club" of American Arab writers. 1928, Jesus, son of man. 10 April 10, Ji Bolun died and was buried in St. Cerchi monastery in Bashiri.
Ji Bolun's literary works as a whole present a sacred "apocalypse" form, with fables and wisdom literature full of fraternity and philosophy of life as the main body. Prose poetry, a literary genre, is commonly used in genre form, and is directly described by the first person "I" to express opinions.