As-Safi Octalogy in the international literary spa

As-Safi Octalogy in the international literary space

In September 2020, As-Safi Octalogy of the Russian poet and journalist Shukur Tebuev crossed the 200 thousand lines of poetry, bypassing the colossus of world literature in the person of the Iliad-Odyssey, Ramayana, Shah-name and Mahabharata. De facto being the largest poetic work of the planet, written by one person, octalogy tells about the History of the World from the moment of its creation in the context of the struggle between spirit and ego. Gazelles, rubai, sonnets, haydars, shamils, masnawi, mukhammasa, takhmis - this is an incomplete list of the poetic "weapons" of the Caucasian phenomenon on the way to a fantastic confrontation - belt wrestling - with the Kyrgyz epic Manas in volume from 396 thousand to half a million and more lines in different versions. The published books of the octalogy are stored in the Russian State Library and will soon appear in the remote access of the US Library of Congress, which has approved placement on its resources.

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