{"product_id":"the-thousand-and-one-nights-and-twentieth-century-fiction-intertextual-readings-9789004438668","title":"The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction: Intertextual Readings","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn The Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction, Richard van Leeuwen challenges conventional perceptions of the development of 20th-century prose by arguing that Thousand and One Nights, as an intertextual model, has been a crucial influence on authors who have contributed to shaping the main literary currents in 20th-century world literature, inspiring new forms and concepts of literature and texts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award (category: Arabic Culture in Other Languages)     \"...this big, notable, stimulating work is a very helpful source of reference indeed not only for students and researchers of literature but also for scholars mastering fields like the philosophy of language, or the philosophy of history.\" - Stavros Nikolaidis, in: Journal of Oriental and African Studies 28 (2019)     \"Van Leeuwen’s Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century Fiction is a smart collection of forty-six different authors of different nationalities from the 19th to the 21st century whose works have one intertextual aspect in common with the Nights. They are major contributors who have shaped the literary backdrop of the twentieth century.\" - Azra Ghandeharion, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad     \"Wir können aber doch an der genauen Betrachtung dieser vier deutschsprachigen Fallbeispiele gut erkennen, wie der Autor gearbeitet hat und wie erhellend seine Ergebnisse sind.[…] Vor allem aber scharft van Leeuwen unseren Blick dafur, wie Tausendundeine Nacht eben nicht einfach von der „westlichen“ Literatur vereinnahmt wurde, sondern allmahlich und auf sehr vielen Wegen in sie eingedrungen und so zu einem Kultbuch der Weltliteratur geworden ist.“ Claudia Ott in Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 115\/4–5 (2020), Islam, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/olzg-2020-0119\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  Introduction  The Thousand and One Nights  Incorporation into World Literature  This Study  Part 1 Enclosures, Journeys, and Texts  1 Enclosures, Letters, and Destiny: Hugo von Hofmannsthal and André Gide  Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the Kunstmärchen, and Orientalism  The Contingency of Fate: André Gide’s Les faux-monnayeurs  2 Going Home: Al-Tayyib Salih and Ibrahim al-Faqih  Season of Migration to the North and the Thousand and One Nights  The Forbidden Room: The Thousand and One Nights and Ibrahim al-Faqih’s Gardens of the Night  3  Writing and Enclosures: Michel Butor and Abilio Estévez  The Portrait of an Author: Michel Butor’s Portrait de l’artiste comme jeune singe  Imprisoned Imagination: Abilio Estévez  Conclusions to Part 1  Part 2 Capturing the Volatility of Time  4 The Return of Time: Marcel Proust and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar  Proust and the Thousand and One Nights  Times of Life and Society: Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar  5 Narration and Survival: Vladimir Nabokov and Margaret Atwood  Nabokov, the Thousand and One Nights, and Life After Death  Narrating Against Death: Margaret Atwood  6 Desire Unbound: The Marquis de Sade and Angela Carter  Angela Carter: The Feminist-Narrative Complex  7 Temporal Dystopias: Botho Strauss and Haruki Murakami  War and the Re-invention of Time: Botho Strauss’s Der junge Mann  Haruki Murakami and the Constraints of Time  Conclusions to Part 2  Part 3 The Textual Universe  8 The Celebration of Textuality: James Joyce and the Argentine (post-)Modernists  The Thousand and One Nights and the Textuality of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake  Textual Worlds: Fernández, Arlt, Borges, and Piglia  9 Stories Without End: Italo Calvino and Georges Perec  Italo Calvino and Narration: If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller … and the Thousand and One Nights  Georges Perec: The Imperative of Form  10 The Celebration of Hybridity: Abdelkébir Khatibi and Juan Goytisolo  Abdelkébir Khatibi: Narration and the Body  Juan Goytisolo: Hybridity as a Refuge  Conclusions to Part 3  Part 4 Narrating History  11 The Traumas of History: William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and André Brink  Form  History  Absalom, Absalom! and the Thousand and One Nights  The Haunted House: Toni Morrison’s Beloved and André Brink’s Imaginings of Sand  12 The Enchantment of History: Gabriel García Márquez and  Salman Rushdie  Gabriel García Márquez and One Hundred Years of Solitude  Salman Rushdie: History Gone Awry  13 Words Against Death: Roberto Calasso, David Grossman, and  Elias Khoury  Roberto Calasso: The Ruin of Kasch  David Grossman: Fighting the Nazi Beast  Violence and the Boundaries of Narrativity: Elias Khoury’s Yalo  Conclusions to Part 4  Part 5 Identifications, Impersonations, Doubles: The Discontents of (post-)Modernity  14 Aladdin’s Nightmare: Henrik Pontoppidan and Ernst Jünger  The Curse of Aladdin: Henrik Pontoppidan  The City of Brass, Aladdin, and the Discontents of Modernity: Ernst Jünger  15 The Sindbad Syndrome: Gyula Krúdy and John Barth  Gyula Krúdy: The Nostalgic Nomad  The Intrepid Traveler: John Barth  16 The Mock Caliph: H. G. Wells, Arthur Schnitzler, and Orhan Pamuk  A Modern Harun al-Rashid: H. G. Wells’s The Research Magnificent  Arthur Schnitzler’s Der Traumnovelle  The Writer and His Double: Orhan Pamuk’s The Black Book  17 The Multiple Faces of Shahrazad: Leïla Sebbar and Waçini Laredj  Leïla Sebbar: Shérézade  Waçini Laredj: Les ailes de la reine  Conclusions to Part 5  Part 6 Aftermaths: The Delusions of Politics  18 The 1002nd Night: Tawfiq al-Hakim, Taha Husayn, and Naji Mahfuz  Tawfiq al-Hakim: Shahrazad  Taha Husayn: The Dreams of Shahrazad  Najib Mahfuz: The Predicament of Shahriyar  19 Fabrications of Power: Hani al-Rahib and Rachid Boudjedra  The Curse of Repression: al-Rahib’s Alf layla wa-laylatan  A False Utopia: Rachid Boudjedra  20 The Secret Lives of Sindbad: Mostafa Nissaboury and Bahram Beyzaï  Mostafa Nissaboury: Shahrazad’s Suffering  Sindbad’s Return: Bahram Beyzaï  Conclusions to Part 6  Conclusion  The Narrative Universe of Paul Auster  The Framework: The Invention of Solitude  The Locked Room  Doubles  Narrativity  Bibliography","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210807861591,"sku":"9789004438668","price":52.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-thousand-and-one-nights-and-twentieth-century-fiction-intertextual-readings-9789004438668","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}