Commento dell'editore:
The proverbs, witticisms and pleasantries of Nasreddîn, considered by many as a fool, or as a possessor of previously unknown intelligence, or a holder of mystic secrets, are used by the sûfî dervishes both as ways of illustrating the ancient characteristics of the human mind, and as an instrument to gain access to a superior wisdom through the solution, in the consciousness, of its contradictions.
The largest collection of the most unpredictable, saucy, entertaining and transgressing of wise people’s proverbs ever to appear in a Western language.