Middle Eastern literature
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| - | :''[[Middle East]], [[Persian literature]]'' | + | :''[[Middle East]], [[Persian literature]], [[ancient literature]]'' |
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| - | In the collection of stories called ''[[The Book of One Thousand and One Nights]]'', King Shahryar discovers his wife's infidelity and has her executed, without conscience or recognizing any defect in his own psyche, declaring all women to be unfaithful. He marries a succession of virgins only to have Scheherazade's father, the [[vizier]], execute each one the next morning until finally he comes to [[Scheherazade]] herself, after three years of ordering the death of his brides after each wedding night. Scheherazade survives because she tells the king a story on each of the 1001 nights, which end in a [[cliffhanger]] at dawn. Shahryar's brother had earlier discovered his own first wife in bed with a cook and he butchers them both and then continued a pattern of marriage and murder like Shahryar. | ||
| - | The stories in ''The Book of One Thousand and One Nights'' likely began in the [[oral tradition]] before the [[fifth century]] [[AD]]. Though Shahrya was not then a stock psychopathic character the Book and its many characters, has had wide influence on writers, not only in the sex and serial murder genre. [[Edgar Allan Poe]], for example wrote "[[A Thousand and Second Night]]", where in the story of Sinbad, Poe's king kills [[Scheherazade]] in disgust at the story she tells him. | + | The stories in ''[[The Book of One Thousand and One Nights]]'' likely began in the [[oral tradition]] before the [[fifth century]] [[AD]]. Though Shahrya was not then a stock psychopathic character the Book and its many characters, has had wide influence on writers, not only in the sex and serial murder genre. [[Edgar Allan Poe]], for example wrote "[[A Thousand and Second Night]]", where in the story of Sinbad, Poe's king kills [[Scheherazade]] in disgust at the story she tells him. |
| + | ==See also== | ||
| + | *[[Arabic literature]] | ||
| + | *[[Armenian literature]] | ||
| + | *[[Hebrew literature]] | ||
| + | *[[Kurdish literature]] | ||
| + | *[[Maltese literature]] | ||
| + | *[[Persian literature]] | ||
| + | *[[Turkish literature]] | ||
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Ancient Persian literature
The stories in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights likely began in the oral tradition before the fifth century AD. Though Shahrya was not then a stock psychopathic character the Book and its many characters, has had wide influence on writers, not only in the sex and serial murder genre. Edgar Allan Poe, for example wrote "A Thousand and Second Night", where in the story of Sinbad, Poe's king kills Scheherazade in disgust at the story she tells him.
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See also
- Arabic literature
- Armenian literature
- Hebrew literature
- Kurdish literature
- Maltese literature
- Persian literature
- Turkish literature
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