The Knowledge of Man

From jewellery to meditation pillows to tourist retreats

But as the night stretches on before him

some books have changed the world

Bahawa daun hijau akan menggelepar ke perut bumi

gained through an awareness of pure existence

rhythmic movement

and elusive work of making art

from Cairo to Jerusalem

Weaving conversations with some of the most accomplished artists of our time together with the journal entries

Small incidents of the day revive some of the oldest preoccupations of the novel: the force of social circumstance

archival documents and a vast range of published material

reprinting and revising his most important essays on Tradition and the Individual Talent