Arabs and the Art of Storytelling: A Strange Familiarity (Middle East Literature in Translation)

by Abdelfattah Kilito (Author), Mbarek Sryfi (Translator), Abdelfattah Kilito (Author), Mbarek Sryfi (Translator), Roger Allen (Foreword), Eric Sellin (Translator)

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  Hardcover
  2014

  $47.70

  Moroccan literary historian and critic Kilito revisits and reassesses, in a modern critical light, many traditional narratives of the Arab world. He brings to such celebrated texts as A Thousand and One Nights, Kalila and Dimna, and Kitab al-Bukhala' refreshing and iconoclastic insight, giving new life to classic stories that are often treated as fossilized and untouchable cultural treasures.