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| Title in English | Collection A Thousand and One Nights Known Unknown |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Partonyma. Literární čtvrtletník |
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| Web | Plný text čísla časopisu |
| Keywords | Arabic fairy tales; Orient; Antoine Galland; Charles Perrault; France |
| Description | Perhaps the most famous monument of Arabic semi-human literature, the monumental collection A Thousand and One Nights (Alf lajla wa lajla) is standardly classified as so-called Arabic literature, mainly for linguistic reasons, but also because the Arab environment played a major role in its formation. It is worth pointing out, however, that although we can also debate the vagueness and over-generality of the label 'Arabic literature', the collection A Thousand and One Nights contains within it the creations of the popular imagination and fiction of the Orient in a broader sense, from India to Persia to the Middle East and North Africa. It is thus a transnational work that stands somewhere between several literatures. |