The madman

This is the first book Kahlil Gibran published in English, and it contains thirty-five stories and poems. In *The Madman*, the biting, satirical stories, with their profound meanings, embody bitterness, disappointment, and resentment towards malice, ignorance, and rigidity. He made his protagonist mad to escape logic, for no one blames a madman, or as Gibran said, because madness is the first s...