When retelling a story, no matter the contents it is always exaggerated in order to make it interesting for the audience; Arabian Nights is no different. In this case, these authors trying to reenact The Thousand and One Nights are really just succumbing to Orientalism and not displaying the true culture of the Middle Eastern […]
By Sofia Tartakovskaya 09/11/22 1.“So has the drab fabric of life been transformed into the gossamer of romance, as these stories.” (Haddawy, page X) – With these stories, the dreadful reality of our life changes into anything we could ever imagine. -These stories are like out-of-reach dreams that life will never really have. -The romantic […]
Sofia Tartakovskaya- 09/13/2022 I think this interpretation of the Arabian Nights is very engaging, there are many things that keep you drawn in but compared to modern books that everyone understands, this is definitely different. What was mostly hard to follow was all the different changes throughout the text with no character or story development […]
