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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1 有用 sentientbeing 2021-10-28 22:53:15
适合阅读量大的朋友读
3 有用 茼蒿暴君那那酱 2016-07-03 19:53:52
可能是我最近更笨了，总感觉翻译得有些绕口；关于英语文学和句式的解析还蛮有意思的；第四章根本在秀杂文量，逼人一边看一边google，(๑•₃ั•๑)但是好像也不能硬逼译者写出处和注释
2 有用 微笑迦朵 2017-12-12 18:04:31
2017年已读103。重读的话，我会从第七篇《有史以来最完美的故事》开始。
0 有用 卡尔松 2018-02-14 23:37:52
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1 有用 萬古銀桑 2016-02-19 22:19:52
听学院派才女拜厄特讲讲欧洲近年兴起的历史小说、传奇改写、“故事新编” 什么巴恩斯啊 曼特尔啦 卡尔维诺呐 拜阿姨在书里谈笑风生