The Thousand and one nights and twentieth-century fiction : intertextual readings / by Richard van Leeuwen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Enclosures, Journeys, and Texts -- Enclosures, Letters, and Destiny: Hugo von Hofmannsthal and André Gide -- Going Home: Al-Tayyib Salih and Ibrahim al-Faqih -- Writing and Enclosures: Michel Butor and Abilio Estévez -- Capturing the Volatility of Time -- The Return of Time: Marcel Proust and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar -- Narration and Survival: Vladimir Nabokov and Margaret Atwood -- Desire Unbound: The Marquis de Sade and Angela Carter -- Temporal Dystopias: Botho Strauss and Haruki Murakami -- The Textual Universe -- The Celebration of Textuality: James Joyce and the Argentine (Post-)Modernists -- Stories without End: Italo Calvino and Georges Perec -- The Celebration of Hybridity: Abdelkébir Khatibi and Juan Goytisolo -- Narrating History -- The Traumas of History: William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and André Brink -- The Enchantment of History: Gabriel García Márquez and Salman Rushdie -- Words Against Death: Roberto Calasso, David Grossman, and Elias Khoury -- Identifications, Impersonations, Doubles: The Discontents of (Post-)Modernity -- Aladdin’s Nightmare: Henrik Pontoppidan and Ernst Jünger -- The Sindbad Syndrome: Gyula Krúdy and John Barth -- The Mock Caliph: H. G. Wells, Arthur Schnitzler, and Orhan Pamuk -- The Multiple Faces of Shahrazad: Leïla Sebbar and Waçiny Laredj -- Aftermaths: The Delusions of Politics -- The 1002nd Night: Tawfiq al-Hakim, Taha Husayn, and Najib Mahfuz -- Fabrications of Power: Hani al-Rahib and Rachid Boudjedra -- The Secret Lives of Sindbad: Mostafa Nissaboury and Bahram Beyzaï -- Conclusion -- Back Matter -- Bibliography.

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It is gradually being acknowledged that the Arabic story-collection Thousand and One Nights has had a major influence on European and world literature. This study analyses the influence of Thousand and One Nights , as an intertextual model, on 20th-century prose from all over the world. Works of approximately forty authors are examined: those who were crucial to the development of the main currents in 20th-century fiction, such as modernism, magical realism and post-modernism. The book contains six thematic sections divided into chapters discussing two or three authors/works, each from a narratological perspective and supplemented by references to the cultural and literary context. It is shown how Thousand and One Nights became deeply rooted in modern world literature especially in phases of renewal and experiment.

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