Shéhérazade

See also: Shéhérazade (homonymy)

Shéhérazade (in Persian شهرزاد ( Shahrzad or girl of the city) is a Personnage of fiction and storyteller of the book of the Thousand and One Nights. The core of these stories is formed by an old Persian book named Hezar-afsana (either the Thousand of myths , in Persian هزارافسانه).

Summary

The king of Persia, Shâhriar, is misled by his wife. Since, he marries each day a virgin whom he kills in the morning of the Wedding night. Shéhérazade, girl of large the Vizier, goes then voluntary to put an end to the massacre, and develops a stratagem.

After its marriage, the come evening, she tells a history with the sultan, without finishing it. Her husband wants to then know the continuation so much that it leaves him the safe life for one day more. This stratagem hard during Thousand and One Nights with the end of which the sultan gives up his resolution and decides to keep Shéhérazade near him for always.

By the way

  • Rimsky-Korsakov and Maurice Ravel wrote symphonic poems with this material like source of inspiration. Less known is the evocation of the character by Karol Szymanowski in one of the parts of its Masques .
  • the Thousand and One Nights are also an often quoted example of the process of Mise in abyme, because he tells the history of Shéhérazade which tells the history of a character who sometimes will tell something in his turn.

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