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“It was first told in India, then in Iran and then in Anatolia; it was eventually recorded in Arabic and compiled in Cairo. They all came together to form One Thousand and One Nights. “-Jorge Luis Borges Baron von Hammer-Purgstall talks about confabulatores nocturni, “men who tell stories at night” in one of his texts. 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)

Translation: Sümeyra Özkan

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

First Print Year: 2017

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Size: 14x21

Media Type: Hardcover