July
@july
Nasreddin Hodja & Matsuo Basho Two writers that I think are famous in their native countries, but deserve more credit, and are more alike than are often thought. Nasreddin Hodja (13th century) & Matsuo Basho (17th century) imo both have a way of describing the world through Hegelian Synthesis. They both like to take a normal idea as the thesis (sitting on a donkey) and add an antithesis (ride the donkey backwards) and then have the synthesis (I am not riding the donkey backwards, the donkey is going backwards and i'm riding the right way) With Basho you see it in his Haiku (he is the father of Haiku after all) has the ultimate thesis (nature, he likes to describe nature a lot) and then there is some disruption: artificial, or human - and it opposes or breaks this nature (antithesis) - and then there is a sort of resolution that comes from this - which ends in wabi-sabi or Yugen (synthesis)
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kia
@kia
wait nassreddin was an actual person and a writer? i grew up thinking he's a fictional folklore type of character lol
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July
@july
he's pretty fictional, i don't think he was real, but more the idea of him lol
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