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تنتهي الليلة الأولى بعد الألف، فما مصير شهرزاد وشهريار وباقي الرعية؟ في "ليالي ألف ليلة" يروي محفوظ عجائب سِيَر ومصائر السلاطين والحكام والأعيان والتجار والصعاليك والأولياء والعفاريت، في حكايات جديرة بألف ليلة وليلة. لن أستطيع أن أصف ما رأيته لأنه لا يوصف، ولأنه قد أدرك شهرزاد الصباح، فسكتت عن الكلام المباح.
أحمد الديب
يناير 2012 ...more
أحمد الديب
يناير 2012 ...more
The thing about 1001 Nights is the ending, where Sherzhade gets to keep her head. Would you really like to be married to a man who kept beheading wives on the first day of the honeymoon?
Mahfouz seems to be playing with this idea and some others in this quasi sequel to Arabian Nights. In part, he explores why a sultan can do something and an everyman cannot. He deals with the question of faith and how stories and telling change our view of that.
This novel is more like a series of inter-connect ...more
Mahfouz seems to be playing with this idea and some others in this quasi sequel to Arabian Nights. In part, he explores why a sultan can do something and an everyman cannot. He deals with the question of faith and how stories and telling change our view of that.
This novel is more like a series of inter-connect ...more
Exceptional, beautiful and delightful. What happened after Shahrzad told stories to the cruel King for a thousand nights and one night?
Jan 23, 2010
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