The Giaour - A Fragment of a Turkish Tale

George Gordon Byron

Forgotten Books

2018

50 páginas

1h 40m

ISBN-10: 0483946710

"Giaour" is an offensive Turkish word for infidel or non-believer, and is similar to the Arabic word "kafir." The story is subtitled "A Fragment of a Turkish Tale," and is Byron's only fragmentary narrative poem. Lord Byron designed the story with three narrators giving their individual point of view about the series of events. Byron was inspired to write the poem during his Grand Tour during 1810 and 1811, which he undertook with his friend John Cam Hobhouse. While in Athens, he became aware of the Turkish custom of throwing a woman found guilty of adultery into the sea wrapped in a sack.

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O Giaour é um dos mais belos poemas de Byron, que denota suas paixões e as influências dos Balcãs e da região do Golfo. Apesar do óbvio orientalismo na obra, ela é claramente um prelúdio para o fragmento onde ele viria a trabalhar posteriormente a figura do Vampiro, inspirando Polidori em seu conto pouco tempo depois. Uma boa e rápida leitura, recomendável para os apreciadores do autor e amantes de vampiros rs