Summary
1001 Nights
The stories from One Thousand and One Nights hide many secrets related to the long history of the creation of that reading, to its transition from oral to written form, then to the first edited collections, and to the very questions about their possible author or authors, the places of the primordial beginning of their fable, the era or eras of the spread of their stories. It is a wide door through which listeners and readers of One Thousand and One Nights enter the first, then the second, then the third... story, then into the real "oceans of stories". The mystery of One Thousand and One Nights is revived again and again in "new geographies" through which the glory of this work is transmitted through translation. Baghdad, Cairo and Damascus were joined by the cities of the Far East and the West. There are an impressive number of translations of One Thousand and One Nights into many languages and through many times. Just as humanity will never stop dreaming, it will never stop telling stories. Thus, the secrets of the Thousand and One Nights will constantly multiply, spread and transform.
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