In the garden of world literature, the Arabian Nights, the greatest masterpiece of medieval folk literature, has been circulated for centuries and still has a far-reaching influence on world culture.
Medieval folk literature has rich imagination, sincere and touching emotions, free expression, popular language features and fascinating whimsy. The classic "Arabian Nights" handed down from ancient times has these characteristics and has become the main source of the world romantic literature wave.
The content of "Arabian Nights" is all-encompassing, very rich, with big stories and short stories intertwined and in-depth at different levels; The plot is complex, fantastic and bizarre, with numerous branches and vines, magnificent momentum and clear rhythm, and the psychological description is nuanced and reasonable; The technique is ingenious and touching, and the magnificent fantasy and real description are skillfully integrated into one, forming a tortuous, unpredictable, wonderful and touching artistic realm. In the book, the majestic emperors and generals often combine with ordinary people, and skillfully integrate people's common flowers, birds, fish, insects and imaginary ghosts and gods into stories full of philosophy and human feelings, which profoundly shows the fearless spirit of the protagonist in fighting against fate, dealing with nature, and fighting against all kinds of difficulties and obstacles on the road to success and false and ugly phenomena that sometimes appear in society, which is unbearable to release.
Arabian Nights is a rare and tireless masterpiece of children's world. The book describes many young heroes, witty children and learned talents at all costs. Their tireless pursuit of truth is a good inspiration to children readers. A large number of fairy tales in books often make adults and children scramble to read them. At that time, the fairy mountain hidden in the sea and the unfathomable hell seemed so profound and fantastic. Not true. The ever-changing fox spirit, the elusive ghost, gives people a feeling that nothing has happened and is within reach.
As a rare treasure in world literature, Arabian Nights is the common wealth of all mankind and is loved by readers all over the world. It promoted the Renaissance in Europe and the establishment of modern natural science, made great contributions to the development of world culture, and had an extremely important impact on world literature and art. As early as the Crusades, some of its stories were brought back to Europe. /kloc-At the beginning of the 8th century, Garland, who studied oriental culture, translated some Syrian stories into French for the first time and published them, which played a positive role in the literature and art of France, Britain, Germany, Russia, Spain, Italy and China. The world's literary giants include Voltaire, Stendhal, La Fontaine, Boccaccio, Goethe and Chaucer. At the same time, it also inspired countless poets, scholars, painters and musicians in the East and West. Even Grimm's Fairy Tales, Andersen's Fairy Tales and Pushkin's Fairy Tales are influenced by their related contents to varying degrees, and some Kazakh stories in China are similar to them.
An immortal literary masterpiece. Its influence is various, and it is also manifested in music, dance, sculpture and painting all over the world. For example, in some works of famous artists such as French romantic painter Delacroix, Russian composer Limsky, Kosac, French director Alexander, Banois and even Beethoven and Tchaikovsky, it is not difficult for people to see the clue of Arabian Nights.
Arabian Nights is a wonderful flower in the world literature garden, which will bloom forever and will continue to promote the continuous development of world literature, art and civilization.
Arabian Nights also had a profound influence on later literature. /kloc-At the beginning of the 8th century, Garang, France translated it into French for the first time and published it. Later, translations and new versions of various languages appeared in Europe, which set off a "Oriental fever". Voltaire, a famous French enlightenment scholar, said, "After reading The Arabian Nights for four times, I have tasted the story-like literature and art". Stendhal, a famous writer, hoped that God would make him forget the story of The Arabian Nights, so that he could read it again and relive the fun in the book. Gorky called it "the most magnificent monument" in folk oral creation. At the beginning of the 20th century, Arabian Nights was introduced to China.
Many stories in Arabian Nights come from ancient Persian, Egyptian and Iraqi folklore, but the Arab people absorbed, melted, transformed and recreated them, making them truly and vividly reflect the life of Arab society. Most of these stories praise and praise the kindness and wisdom of the people, and attack and expose the sins and crimes of the bad guys. Stories include myths and legends, fables, fairy tales, love stories, sailing adventures and court anecdotes. Many of these stories are familiar to us today, such as The Fisherman and the Devil, Aladdin and the Magic Lamp, Alibaba and the Forty Thieves, and Sinbad's Sailing Journey. The characters in the book are all-encompassing, including fairy tales, kings, ministers, wealthy businessmen, common people and various religions. They cover all aspects of Arab social life in the Middle Ages and are valuable materials for studying Arab history, culture, religion, language, art and folk customs.
The literary style of the works is mainly romanticism, which organically combines realistic elements with fantasy elements, embodies the artistic characteristics of folk literature, opens up the road of Arab popular literature, and occupies an extremely important position in the history of Arab novel development. Arabian Nights enjoys the reputation of "the greatest fantasy book in the world" because of its fantastic imagination, exotic content and romantic style.