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Kahlil Gibran’s masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time—a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, and, above all, inspirational. Published in 1923, it has been translated into more than twenty languages.
The Prophet contains powerful words of wisdom on such essential subjects as marriage, children, friendship, work, and pleasure—words that readers from around the world have found inspirational and life-changing. A poet, artist, and mystic, Gibran was born to a poor Christian family in Lebanon and emigrated to the United States as an adolescent, where he began studying art. The twenty-eight poetic essays collected in The Prophet are illustrated with twelve of his full-page drawings. Perhaps no other twentieth-century writer has touched the hearts and minds of so remarkably varied and widespread a readership.

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        This solid comics adaptation from Lewis (the Kismet, Man of Faith series) and artist Rentería joins other recent graphic interpretations in framing a plot around the poetic original. After living for 12 years in Orphalese, Almustafa, the “Prophet of God,” spies a ship arriving from his homeland. As he prepares to depart, the people, led by the seeress Almitra, urge him to “speak to us and give us of your truth.” Almustafa wanders the streets, imparting aphoristic teachings on such topics as love, children, work, and freedom to a clearly devoted public. The action unfolds in an unspecified Mediterranean country populated by romanticized archetypes (the stoic widow, the seemingly innocent femme fatale), and Rentería’s clean black-and-white comics literalize Almustafa’s metaphors and symbols, such as rendering a stone fruit’s pit as the knowledge brought by pain, or the strings of a lute to represent marriage (though threaded separately, they “quiver with the same music”). While hewing close to the original text, Lewis and Rentería fill in the prophet’s backstory through wordless flashbacks, portraying him as a young man caught up in military actions and a romantic betrayal; these narrative flourishes offer fresh angles on Gibran’s words. Though primarily suited to those who already hold The Prophet dear, this has the potential to create new fans.

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