论历史与故事

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• A direct descendant of the Nights is The Saragossa Manuscript, written by the Polish Jean Potocki between 1797 and 1815. Potocki was a Knight of Malta, a linguist and an occultist – his tales, set in Spain in 1739, are dizzily interlinked at many levels - ghouls, politics, rationalism, ghosts, necromancy, tale within tale within tale. He spent time searching vainly for a manuscript of the Nights in Morocco, and shot himself with a silver bullet made from a teapot-lid in Poland. Out of such works came nineteenth-century Gothick fantasy, and the intricate, paranoid nightmare plottings of such story-webs as The Crying of Lot 49 or Lawrence Norfolk’s Lemprière’s Dictionary. Collections of tales talk to each other and borrow from each other, motifs glide from culture to culture, century to cen... (查看原文)

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