1001 Nights

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1001 Nights Anonymous Mon Mar 16 02:01:52 2020 No.14895924 [Reply] [Original]

When you think of this book what are the first stories that come to mind? Aladdin, Ali Baba & the Forty Thieves, and Sinbad the Sailor, right? But it turns out these stories WERE NOT part of the original Arabic manuscript. These were added by the first European translator Antoine Galland, who translated the work into French. But the thing is, some sources say he found the Arabic manuscripts for these other stories in his national library while other sources say he heard the stories from a Syrian Christian storyteller. Does someone here even know where these iconic stories come from? Are they just an invention of the translator who was inspired by the original ones and deemed it important to add his own stuff?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 02:05:08 2020 No.14895932 borgesian af

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 02:05:51 2020 No.14895936 >>14895924 Hanna Diyab wrote the good shit.

Anonymous Mon Mar 16 02:21:01 2020 No.14895976

>>14895936
FUCK you're right. This guy should be taking the credit for coming up with the best stories:
>While in Paris, Diyab first met the Orientalist Antoine Galland on Sunday, March 17, 1709. Galland's diary contains extended summaries of stories told by Diyab on March 25. Galland asked for more, and on May 5 received in written form (now lost) Diyab's version of the story now known as Aladdin. Galland summarised more stories, apparently from oral telling, throughout May and into June that year. He went on to include these works as a continuation of his French translation of an incomplete Arabic manuscript of the Thousand and One Nights, and they include some of the stories that became the most popular and closely associated with the Thousand and One Nights in later world literature. It seems likely that Diyab told these stories in French.
This man is one of the most underrated people in all of literature. Just what the fuck.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 02:47:28 2020 No.14896071 File: 255 KB, 907x1360, D3AAC077-2483-45CA-9DA9-C7941A0DCC1C.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14895924 What’s with Persians and fear of being cucked?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 02:51:35 2020 No.14896076 >>14896071 Better than Amerifags embracing cuckoldry and longing for it every day of their lives.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 05:47:20 2020 No.14896530 bump

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 05:50:12 2020 No.14896535 >>14896076 This

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 16 12:21:06 2020 No.14897615 >>14896071 based book btw

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