Are the One Thousand and One Nights worth a read or are they only interesting because of their historical significance?
What a dumb question. How would it have historical significance if it wasn't at least somewhat good in the first place?
>>7586172
>e first place?
but not in the second
see the decamoron
see a hundred similar books
they become outdated
>>7586178
The point is if you're asking this question in >2016 then it probably still has some relevancy.
>>7586172
Uncle Tom's Cabin, To Kill a Mockingbird, Brave New World, 1984, Atlas Shrugged
>>7586187
Ignorance doesn't imply a quality (of whatever sort) to what the person is ignorant about. Ignorance simply means ignorance.
>>7586178
I had a blast reading the decameron
Why don't you give it a try and find out yourself?
>>7586216
I'm stuck at a third of the book. The stories are really boring and lame. The ending are supposed to be witty but just make me eye-roll. It's the post-medieval airport novel senpai.
>>7586224
>post-medieval airport novel
It was very popular among merchants at the time yes.
Boccaccio was pretty much the inventor of the whacky airport-novel, but that was an accident of sorts. What he was really trying to do was paying reverence to Dante while still appealing to his time
and that's why I found it interesting.
Borges loved it
>get burton translation
>fap forever
>>7586157
I see incomplete versions quite often. I mean, editions in juts one tome, about 500-600 pags.
Are they worth the time and money?
>writers who have been influenced by the Nights include John Barth, Jorge Luis Borges, Salman Rushdie, Orhan Pamuk, Goethe, Walter Scott, Thackeray, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Nodier, Flaubert, Marcel Schwob, Stendhal, Dumas, Gérard de Nerval, Gobineau, Pushkin, Tolstoy, Hofmannsthal, Conan Doyle, W. B. Yeats, H. G. Wells, Cavafy, Calvino, Georges Perec, H. P. Lovecraft, Marcel Proust, A. S. Byatt and Angela Carter.
What do you think?
>>7586190
The only one on that list that really had historical significance was Uncle Tom's Cabin
But yeah it's shit
>>7586665
No discernible talent
>>7586717
>H.P. Lovecraft
>not talented
>>7586178
>decameron
>not good
stay pleb
>>7586717
>talking shit about Borges
Punishable by death t b h
>>7586717
>borges
>calvino
don't even
