... rejects Brunei's argument, which is seconded by Roger Dubuis (526-27), that the shorter text is the basis of the longer (Crow 1-18 and Brunei iii). The Romanic Review Volume 103 Numbers 1-2 © The Trustees of Columbia University KAREN LURKHUR kingdom of Aumarie, where she marries the sultan. Some years...

... of the Ottoman Empire was one of Racine's sources, repeatedly emphasizes the servile nature and origin of the Ottoman state, adding that the Sultan himself had slave origins.8 His account deserves quoting at length: The absolute power in the Prince implies an exact obedience in the Subjects; and to instill...

... narratif, dans un enchainement de sequences plus marque et plus coherent. Le conte se divise lui aussi en trois parties. II commence par les souhaits de trois sreurs: l'une desire se marier avec un boulanger, l'autre avec Ie chef des cuisines et la cadette avec Ie sultan. Apprenant cela, celui-ci convoque...

... as ironic punishment for his licentious conduct during one of his reincarnations. The novel mixes his tales of adventure, as he passes from sofa to sofa until two lovers liberate him by losing their virginity upon him, with the running commentary of his audience, the sultan Schah-Baham and his wife. 9...

... within masculine artistic representations. I will briefly discuss some examples from 60 AMR KAMAL L'Amour, la Fantasia (1985), La Pointe courte (1955), Ombre sultane (1987), aLe Bonheur (1965), and Cleo de 5 7 (1962). Both artists produced several fictional works in which they embedded their own...

.... In Cairo, at Sultan Danebruno's court, the hero starts his transformation: from Prince, son of a King, to man in a poor condition (stockman, horse keeper, and finally cupbearer), but thanks to his skills he earns the favour of Danebruno, his future opponent. Livoretto appears as a fairy tale hero without...

..., demontre Jullien. Une reuvre telle qu'Ombre sultane, d'Assia Djebar, sait jouer de ces ambigultes : comme Dinarzade, responsable de la ruse des recits renouveles qui permettent la survie, Isma est l'eveilleuse de sa sreur Hajila, femme-enfant pauvre et violee, qui prend conscience de son individualite...

... in the echelons of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem. In 1483, Robert d'Aubusson built a "golden castle" for the fallen sultan, Prince "Zizim" (so called because no one could remember nor pronounce his name, it seems). The Tour Zizim, where the prince spent the rest of his life, dominates the town. I used...

.... Michel Foucault, His toire de la sexualite I, p. 74. The Romanic Review Volume 97 Number 2 © The Trustees of Columbia University 186 PETER CRYLE in Diderot's story is the magic ring given by the genie Cucufa to the sultan Mangogul. The ring, when pointed at a woman's "jewel," compels it to talk...

... the optics of other, invented people. Proust’s ultimate notion of character, I think, points toward that of his avid reader, Samuel Beckett: character as the Unnameable, L’Innommable. Character returns to mind, ultimately the reader’s, a consciousness somewhere between Scheherazade’s and her Sultan’s...

... only other text to be translated into Arabic is a play, Rouge l'aube (1969), which she coauthored with her then husband, Walid Garn. 5. The first three volumes of the Algerian quartet are Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade (L'Amour, la Fantasia, 1985), A Sister to Scheherazade (Ombre sultane, 1987...

... auprès de sa maîtresse Palmyre, réduite en esclavage par le sultan de Bagdad. La scène se déroule au sérail que l amant pénètre en se faisant passer pour eunuque : Palmyre Mais, tu savais donc m y trouver ? Moutonnet Mon c ur me le disait . . . [Je sentais en moi quelque chose se tourner incessamment...