Ethics of the Aristocrats and Other Satirical Works
Ethics of the Aristocrats and Other Satirical Works Obeyd-e Zakani, who died in 1372 is among the great poets of Iran but little known in the West. Obeyd was a remarkable satirist and social critic…
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Ethics of the Aristocrats and Other Satirical Works
Obeyd-e Zakani, who died in 1372 is among the great poets of Iran but little known in the West. Obeyd was a remarkable satirist and social critic who looked upon his world of extravagant indulgence and corruption with the censorious eyes of a Juvenal, and portrayed it with the cynicism and wit of a Voltaire, and the hilarious grotesqueness of a Rabelais. This selection of his work is the first to be translated into English.
He used scathing stories and sardonic maxims to paint a world full of deceit, greed, lust, sycophancy, and perversion, where old values and virtues were scorned and extremes of wealth and poverty, violence and bloodshed were the order of the