Beschreibung:

304 S. Lit.verz. Kart. *neuwertig*

Bemerkung:

Anyone who associates ?The Arabian Nights? with erotic stories will doubtlessly be disappointed when reading ?City of Brass? (Nights 566?578). This tale deals not with the lust for life, but, on the contrary, with the vanity of existence: Each individual who attempts to safeguard his own memory will inevitably fail because of the destructiveness of time. The reader learns this lesson together with the protagonist Musa Ibn Nusayr (died 716?717) as the reader accompanies him on his fantastic expedition to the end of the world, which at the same time also seems to be the beginning of time. The topic of this study is how the detailed steps of Musa Ibn Nusayr?s ?sentimental journey? are staged with respect to space and time, and how the recurrent motif of vanity gradually leads him to religious awareness.