The Arabian Nights - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0393313670 ISBN 13 : 9780393313673

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 1995

Synopsis

This work is based on Muhsin Mahdi's reconstruction of the original "Nights". The tales portray a world of magic, wish-fulfilment and pleasure, depicting the marriage of the supernatural to the ordinary and the sacred to the profane.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

These stories (and stories within stories, and stories within stories within stories), told by the Princess Shahrazad under the threat of death if she ceases to amuse, first reached the West around 1700. They fired in the European imagination an appetite for the mysterious and exotic which has never left it. Collected over centuries from India, Persia, and Arabia, and ranging from vivacious erotica, animal fables, and adventure fantasies to pointed Sufi tales, the stories of The Arabian Nights provided the daily entertainment of the medieval Islamic world at the height of its glory.

The present new translation by Husain Haddawy is of the Mahdi edition, the definitive Arabic edition of a fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, which is the oldest surviving version of the tales and is considered to be the most authentic. This early version is without the embellishments and additions that appear in later Indian and Egyptian manuscripts, on which all previous English translations were based.

Présentation de l'éditeur

The second volume of Husain Haddawy's magnificent new translation of the Arabian Nights follows on the success of the first volume which we have just reprinted. These stories have exerted a profound influence on Western literature, and continue to do so in the work of writers such as Borges and Calvino. They have also enchanted ordinary readers - children and adults - for generations, and anyone who does not know them can see why if they read two of the most famous tales included in the new volume: Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Hussain Haddawy's translation offers the text in clear, vigorous modern English while preserving the distinctive character and colour of the originals.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0393313670
• ISBN 13: 9780393313673
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 460
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible