For something to "read like a translation" is usually a cardinal sin, but translators of the Nights seem to revel in just that. Part of the stories' appeal to Al-Shaykh was their "flat, simple language" – and indeed many versions of the Nights find a voice to portray this vivid world that is knowingly stilted, calculatedly formulaic. (And borne him three sons along the way.) Young Shahrazad is taken to bed by the King who vows to kill her at daybreak, but by spinning out cliff-hanging stories, she manages to earn a day's reprieve, then another, a thousand times over, until she has changed his mind. Now in book form she has stitched together 18 tales, all sitting within the famous frame-story. Her own "re-imagining" had its origins in a commission for the stage, working with theatre director Tim Supple, who dramatised them for a pan-Arabic cast earlier this year.
In the Foreword to her book, Hanan Al-Shaykh writes that she fell in love with the Nights as a child thanks to a radio adaptation. His re-creational task was a translation of sorts, just as Rimsky-Korsakov's was before him. An asterisk indicates the story begins with the night.Earlier this week, the de Havilland Philarmonic performed Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, while live on stage the artist James Mayhew translated those sounds into magical images, including a night-time townscape of domes, under a starry night sky with a crescent moon. Numbers in double parentheses mean that the story is fully contained in the indicated night.
The numbers in parentheses indicate that the night in question began (and the previous night ended) during the tale indicated (or one of its sub-tales). NOTE: The stories in this collection contains both Sunni and Shi'ite stories and does not follow a specific timeline or chronology. The nights are in the style of stories within stories, and the frame story is The Story Of King Shahryar of Persia and His Brother or The Story Of King Shahryar and Queen Shahrazad, in which Shahrazad tells tales to her husband Shahryar. Later pirate copies split the very large third volume into two volumes. His Supplemental Nights were published between 18 as six volumes. Burton's first ten volumes-which he called The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night-were published in 1885. This is a list of the stories in Richard Francis Burton's translation of One Thousand and One Nights.
0 kommentar(er)
