Don Quixote: Cervantes’s ‘Arabic’ Tale

Edit Dawn 03 Apr 2016
In the first chapter of Book II of that monumental work belonging to the world literary canon, the formidable Don Quixote, its (real) author tells us a story about the story — a meta-story that is ... It was invented, so the scholars tell us, by Badiuzzaman Hamadhani in the 10th century and was taken to never-surpassed heights by the famous Hariri of Basra in the following century, delicately combining prose and poetry ... ....
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