Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Thousand and One Nights
Incorporation into World Literature
This Study
Part 1 Enclosures, Journeys, and Texts
1 Enclosures, Letters, and Destiny: Hugo von Hofmannsthal and André
Gide
Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the Kunstmärchen, and Orientalism
The Contingency of Fate: André Gide’s Les faux-monnayeurs
2 Going Home: Al-Tayyib Salih and Ibrahim al-Faqih
Season of Migration to the North and the Thousand and One
Nights
The Forbidden Room: The Thousand and One Nights and Ibrahim
al-Faqih’s Gardens of the Night
3 Writing and Enclosures: Michel Butor and Abilio Estévez
The Portrait of an Author: Michel Butor’s Portrait de l’artiste
comme jeune singe
Imprisoned Imagination: Abilio Estévez
Conclusions to Part 1
Part 2 Capturing the Volatility of Time
4 The Return of Time: Marcel Proust and Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
Proust and the Thousand and One Nights
Times of Life and Society: Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar
5 Narration and Survival: Vladimir Nabokov and Margaret Atwood
Nabokov, the Thousand and One Nights, and Life After Death
Narrating Against Death: Margaret Atwood
6 Desire Unbound: The Marquis de Sade and Angela Carter
Angela Carter: The Feminist-Narrative Complex
7 Temporal Dystopias: Botho Strauss and Haruki Murakami
War and the Re-invention of Time: Botho Strauss’s Der junge
Mann
Haruki Murakami and the Constraints of Time
Conclusions to Part 2
Part 3 The Textual Universe
8 The Celebration of Textuality: James Joyce and the Argentine
(post-)Modernists
The Thousand and One Nights and the Textuality of Ulysses and
Finnegans Wake
Textual Worlds: Fernández, Arlt, Borges, and Piglia
9 Stories Without End: Italo Calvino and Georges Perec
Italo Calvino and Narration: If on a Winter’s Night a
Traveller … and the Thousand and One Nights
Georges Perec: The Imperative of Form
10 The Celebration of Hybridity: Abdelkébir Khatibi and Juan
Goytisolo
Abdelkébir Khatibi: Narration and the Body
Juan Goytisolo: Hybridity as a Refuge
Conclusions to Part 3
Part 4 Narrating History
11 The Traumas of History: William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and
André Brink
Form
History
Absalom, Absalom! and the Thousand and One Nights
The Haunted House: Toni Morrison’s Beloved and André Brink’s
Imaginings of Sand
12 The Enchantment of History: Gabriel García Márquez and Salman
Rushdie
Gabriel García Márquez and One Hundred Years of Solitude
Salman Rushdie: History Gone Awry
13 Words Against Death: Roberto Calasso, David Grossman, and Elias
Khoury
Roberto Calasso: The Ruin of Kasch
David Grossman: Fighting the Nazi Beast
Violence and the Boundaries of Narrativity: Elias Khoury’s
Yalo
Conclusions to Part 4
Part 5 Identifications, Impersonations, Doubles: The Discontents of
(post-)Modernity
14 Aladdin’s Nightmare: Henrik Pontoppidan and Ernst Jünger
The Curse of Aladdin: Henrik Pontoppidan
The City of Brass, Aladdin, and the Discontents of Modernity:
Ernst Jünger
15 The Sindbad Syndrome: Gyula Krúdy and John Barth
Gyula Krúdy: The Nostalgic Nomad
The Intrepid Traveler: John Barth
16 The Mock Caliph: H. G. Wells, Arthur Schnitzler, and Orhan
Pamuk
A Modern Harun al-Rashid: H. G. Wells’s The Research
Magnificent
Arthur Schnitzler’s Der Traumnovelle
The Writer and His Double: Orhan Pamuk’s The Black Book
17 The Multiple Faces of Shahrazad: Leïla Sebbar and Waçini
Laredj
Leïla Sebbar: Shérézade
Waçini Laredj: Les ailes de la reine
Conclusions to Part 5
Part 6 Aftermaths: The Delusions of Politics
18 The 1002nd Night: Tawfiq al-Hakim, Taha Husayn, and Naji
Mahfuz
Tawfiq al-Hakim: Shahrazad
Taha Husayn: The Dreams of Shahrazad
Najib Mahfuz: The Predicament of Shahriyar
19 Fabrications of Power: Hani al-Rahib and Rachid Boudjedra
The Curse of Repression: al-Rahib’s Alf layla wa-laylatan
A False Utopia: Rachid Boudjedra
20 The Secret Lives of Sindbad: Mostafa Nissaboury and Bahram
Beyzaï
Mostafa Nissaboury: Shahrazad’s Suffering
Sindbad’s Return: Bahram Beyzaï
Conclusions to Part 6
Conclusion
The Narrative Universe of Paul Auster
The Framework: The Invention of Solitude
The Locked Room
Doubles
Narrativity
Bibliography
Richard van Leeuwen, Ph.D. (1992) University of Amsterdam, is senior lecturer in Islamic Studies at that university. He has published widely on the history of the Middle East, Arabic literature, and Islam, and is also a translator of Arabic literature. His publications include Notables and Clergy in Mount Lebanon (Brill 1994); Waqfs and Urban Structures (Brill 1999); (2004; The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia, 2 vols. (Santa Barbara 2004; with U. Marzolph); The Thousand and One Nights: space, travel and transformation (2007) and Narratives of Kingship in Eurasian Empires, 1300-1800 (Brill 2017).
Winner of the 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award (category: Arabic
Culture in Other Languages)
"...this big, notable, stimulating work is a very helpful source of
reference indeed not only for students and researchers of
literature but also for scholars mastering fields like the
philosophy of language, or the philosophy of history." - Stavros
Nikolaidis, in: Journal of Oriental and African Studies 28
(2019)
"Van Leeuwen’s Thousand and One Nights and Twentieth-Century
Fiction is a smart collection of forty-six different authors of
different nationalities from the 19th to the 21st century whose
works have one intertextual aspect in common with the Nights. They
are major contributors who have shaped the literary backdrop of the
twentieth century." - Azra Ghandeharion, Ferdowsi University of
Mashhad
"Wir können aber doch an der genauen Betrachtung dieser vier
deutschsprachigen Fallbeispiele gut erkennen, wie der Autor
gearbeitet hat und wie erhellend seine Ergebnisse sind.[…] Vor
allem aber scharft van Leeuwen unseren Blick dafur, wie
Tausendundeine Nacht eben nicht einfach von der „westlichen“
Literatur vereinnahmt wurde, sondern allmahlich und auf sehr vielen
Wegen in sie eingedrungen und so zu einem Kultbuch der
Weltliteratur geworden ist.“ Claudia Ott in Orientalistische
Literaturzeitung 115/4–5 (2020), Islam,
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