The Novel
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A. | a | Les Mille et un quarts d'heure, contes tartars (1715). |
German:
B. | 1.a | Die Tausend und eine Viertel-Stunde (Leipzig: J. L. Gleditsch/ M. G. Weidmann, 1716). |
2.a | [...] Anderer Theil (Leipzig: J. L. Gleditsch/ M. G. Weidmann, 1717). | |
1-2.b | (1722). | |
c | (1738): {1: Xy 891}. | |
d | (1753): {1: Xy.892}. |
English:
C. | 1-2.a | A Thousand and one Quarters of Hours (London: J. Tonson, 1716). |
Follows the Arabian Nights with histories told to the blinded king who later regained his throne and who is now waiting for a treatment to regain his sight. Full of surprising ups and downs. A foundling - of course: a borne prince - becomes a famous tailor and finally a king - a moment in which Allah initiates his fall as kings are improved by such turns: p.36: "Adversity purifies their Virtue, and they govern the better for it". The cycle of histories to be told is finally only interrupted. Numerous footnotes are designed to de-mystify the stories.
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