著者名：

Fudge, Bruce (ed. & tr.)

出版元：

New York U.P.

頁数：

xlvii,402p

刊行年：

2016

ISBN：

9780814745199

Arabic Fairy tales

[Miʼat laylah wa-laylah]

Known to us only through North African manuscripts, and translated into English for the first time, A Hundred and One Nights is a marvelous example of the rich tradition of popular Arabic storytelling. Like its more famous sibling, the Thousand and One Nights, this collection opens with the frame story of Shahrazad, the gifted vizier’s daughter who recounts imaginative tales night after night in an effort to distract the murderous king from taking her life. A Hundred and One Nights features an almost entirely different set of stories, however, each one more thrilling, amusing, and disturbing than the last. In them, we encounter tales of epic warriors, buried treasures, disappearing brides, cannibal demon women, fatal shipwrecks, and clever ruses, where human strength and ingenuity play out against a backdrop of inexorable, inscrutable fate.

In English and Arabic; English translated from original Arabic

No.

38900

価格：

5,310円