Les mille et une nuits
Reading The Thousand and One Nights is to enter an enchanted Orient. It is to pass through the door of the most marvelous palace ever built by the imagination of men. Princess Scheherazade—condemned to tell captivating stories to her husband, King Shahryar, to spare her life—delivers tales of impossible loves where mischievous rogues and irascible caliphs mingle, but also those of extraordinary voyages to the ends of the seas and into the underwater depths; not forgetting the mythical genies, benevolent or malevolent, who make and unmake the fortunes of those who cross their paths, and the fabulous creatures who punctuate the narrative with their saving magic or murderous madness...
A fabulous journey through space and time not devoid of morals and philosophy.
Conceived from the 8th century to the 18th century, enriched through oral tradition, The Thousand and One Nights found their current form in the Age of Enlightenment with their first translator into a Western language, Antoine Galland (1646-1715); then Joseph-Charles Mardrus (1868-1949) delivered a new version which received praises from the writers of the Belle Époque and rekindled the myth of The Thousand and One Nights.
Author: Margaret Sironval
Publisher: Citadelles & Mazenod
Publication Date: 10/02/2019
Collection: Édition Exceptionnelle
EAN: 9782850888045
Weight: 4.980 kg
ISBN: 2850888044
Illustration: Color photos
Number of Pages: 496
Format: 25.50 x 32.00 cm
SKU: 4561435