Codrescu Whatever Gets You through the Night

A Story of Sheherezade and the Arabian Entertainments
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3801-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten

An irreverent and deeply funny retelling of the Arabian Nights

"I fear each passing night that I will not receive my maintenance dose of suspense, and then I will cease to exist."—Whatever Gets You through the Night

Whatever Gets You through the Night is an irreverent and deeply funny retelling of the Arabian Nights and a wildly inspired exploration of the timeless art of storytelling. Award-winning writer Andrei Codrescu reimagines how Sheherezade saved Baghdad's virgins and her own life through a heroic feat of storytelling—one that kept the Persian king Sharyar hanging in agonizing narrative and erotic suspense for 1001 nights. For Sheherezade, the end of either suspense or curiosity means death, but Codrescu keeps both alive in this entertaining tale of how she learned to hold a king in thrall, setting with her endless invention an unsurpassable example for all storytellers across the ages. Liberated and mischievous, Codrescu's Sheherezade is as charming as she is shrewd—and so is the story Codrescu tells.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Codrescu, Andrei

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
Framed, pg. v
No Telling Without Retelling, pg. 1
Nostalgia, pg. 2
Search, pg. 12
Sharyar’S Return, pg. 34
Sheherezade Daughter of the Vizir, pg. 46
The Findings: Scroll One, pg. 68
The Fates Speak:, pg. 76
Sheherezade’S Day, pg. 94
King Sharyar’S Day, pg. 101
Sharyar’S Dilemma, pg. 111
In The King’S Absence: Sheherezade.1, pg. 117
“I See It Sometimes,” Abd Al-Hakim Said Mirthlessly, pg. 118
Another Day of Royal Prose, pg. 123
And Yet Another Royal Day, pg. 131
The Findings: Scroll Two, In Your Majesty’S Absence, pg. 131
In The King’S Absence: Sheherezade.2, pg. 139
In The King’S Absence: Sheherezade.3, pg. 145
Sharyar’S Day, pg. 154
The Findings: Scroll Three, pg. 155
Failure of the Middle Class, pg. 160
The Problem Of Containment and Why a Baby Won’T Solve It, pg. 169
Bibliography, pg. 177

Über Autor(innen)

Andrei Codrescu is an award-winning poet, novelist, essayist, and NPR commentator. His recent books include The Posthuman Dada Guide and The Poetry Lesson (both Princeton).