I am a false alarm
Robert Irwin: Khalil Gibran, 3 September 1998
Kahlil Gibran: Man and Poet
by Suheil Bushrui and Joe Jenkins.
One World, 372 pp., £18.99, August 1998,1 85168 177 9 Show More
by Suheil Bushrui and Joe Jenkins.
One World, 372 pp., £18.99, August 1998,
Prophet: The Life and Times of Kahlil Gibran
by Robin Waterfield.
Allen Lane, 366 pp., £20, August 1998,0 7139 9209 3 Show More
by Robin Waterfield.
Allen Lane, 366 pp., £20, August 1998,
“... chosen to write about. Waterfield’s book is sharper, better-written and less repetitive, even if Bushrui and Jenkins give fuller weight to Gibran’s importance for the history of modern Arab literature. They place less stress than Waterfield on Gibran’s drinking and womanising, but then his weaknesses were made public long ago. The broad facts are ... ”