The Thousand and one nights and twentieth-century fiction : intertextual readings / by Richard van Leeuwen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leeuwen, Richard van.

Series:

Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East 124.

Handbook of oriental studies. Section one, The Near and Middle East ; v. 124

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Arabian nights--Influence.

Arabian nights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (842 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.

Summary:

It is gradually being acknowledged that the Arabic story-collection Thousand and One Nights has had a major influence on European and world literature. This study analyses the influence of Thousand and One Nights , as an intertextual model, on 20th-century prose from all over the world. Works of approximately forty authors are examined: those who were crucial to the development of the main currents in 20th-century fiction, such as modernism, magical realism and post-modernism. The book contains six thematic sections divided into chapters discussing two or three authors/works, each from a narratological perspective and supplemented by references to the cultural and literary context. It is shown how Thousand and One Nights became deeply rooted in modern world literature especially in phases of renewal and experiment.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Enclosures, Journeys, and Texts

Enclosures, Letters, and Destiny: Hugo von Hofmannsthal and André Gide

Going Home: Al-Tayyib Salih and Ibrahim al-Faqih

Writing and Enclosures: Michel Butor and Abilio Estévez

Capturing the Volatility of Time

The Return of Time: Marcel Proust and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar

Narration and Survival: Vladimir Nabokov and Margaret Atwood

Desire Unbound: The Marquis de Sade and Angela Carter

Temporal Dystopias: Botho Strauss and Haruki Murakami

The Textual Universe

The Celebration of Textuality: James Joyce and the Argentine (Post-)Modernists

Stories without End: Italo Calvino and Georges Perec

The Celebration of Hybridity: Abdelkébir Khatibi and Juan Goytisolo

Narrating History

The Traumas of History: William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and André Brink

The Enchantment of History: Gabriel García Márquez and Salman Rushdie

Words Against Death: Roberto Calasso, David Grossman, and Elias Khoury

Identifications, Impersonations, Doubles: The Discontents of (Post-)Modernity

Aladdin’s Nightmare: Henrik Pontoppidan and Ernst Jünger

The Sindbad Syndrome: Gyula Krúdy and John Barth

The Mock Caliph: H. G. Wells, Arthur Schnitzler, and Orhan Pamuk

The Multiple Faces of Shahrazad: Leïla Sebbar and Waçiny Laredj

Aftermaths: The Delusions of Politics

The 1002nd Night: Tawfiq al-Hakim, Taha Husayn, and Najib Mahfuz

Fabrications of Power: Hani al-Rahib and Rachid Boudjedra

The Secret Lives of Sindbad: Mostafa Nissaboury and Bahram Beyzaï

Conclusion

Back Matter

Bibliography.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-36269-X

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004362697 DOI