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Leg Over Leg, Or, The Turtle in the Tree: Concerning the F?riy?q, what Manner of Creature Might He Be. Volume Two | Humphrey Taman Davies

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Leg over Leg recounts the life, from birth to middle age, of 'the Fariyaq, ' alter ego of Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, a pivotal figure in the intellectual and literary history of the modern Arab world. The always edifying and often hilarious adventures of the Fariyaq, as he moves from his native Lebanon to Egypt, Malta, Tunis, England and France, provide the author with grist for wide-ranging discussions of the intellectual and social issues of his time, including the ignorance and corruption of the Lebanese religious and secular establishments, freedom of conscience, women's rights, sexual relatio.

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Leg Over Leg, Or, The Turtle in the Tree: Concerning the F?riy?q, what Manner of Creature Might He Be. Volume Two | Humphrey Taman Davies

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If you can imagine an Arabic Tristram Shandy written by—to mimic the synonym-obsessed style of the book—an intellectual and an innovator, a smartypants and a smut-peddler, an obscene lexicographer and a lecherous obsessive, a lover of lists and a lyricist of love, then you will be somewhere near conceptualizing this anarchic and irreverent novel. Filthy, brilliant, funny, and sometimes quite touching.