One Thousand and One Nights 1-Volume

"It was first told in India, then in Persia, and then in Anatolia; eventually it was recorded in Arabic and compiled in Cairo. All of it came together to form One Thousand and One Nights."
-Jorge Luis Borges-

In one of his texts, Baron von Hammer-Purgstall speaks of confabulatores nocturni, "men who tell stories at night." Then, as mentioned for the first time in an old Persian manuscript, it says that Alexander the Great, who was suffering from insomnia, gathered these people around him. IX. If we accept that it is the oldest of the Syrian manuscripts dating back to the 10th century, One Thousand and One Nights has been in the collective memory of humanity for more than 1000 years. It has a huge fan base that has grown like an avalanche since 1706, when it was first translated into Western languages: Henry Fielding, Walter Scott, Thackeray, Wilkie Collins, Goethe, Stendhal, Dumas, Flaubert, Pushkin, Tolstoy, Hofmannsthal, Conan Doyle, Wells, Yeats, Cavafy, Lovecraft, Proust, Perec, Rushdie, Calvino, Mahfuz and of course Borges.
(From the Promotional Bulletin)


Thin Cover:

Number of Pages: 752

Year of Print: 2016


Hardcover:

Number of Pages: 752

Year of Print: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Alfa Publishing

Cover Design: Füsun T. Elmasoğlu
Editor-in-Chief: Mustafa Küpüşoğlu

First Print Year: 2016

Number of Pages: 752

Language Turkish