Las aventuras de Simbad el marino

Seven were Sinbad's voyages, and seven also the shipwrecks suffered by the legendary sailor, which occurred under the reign of Caliph Harun al-Raschid. Sinbad the Sailor, the explorer, the Baghdad adventurer, is the archetype of all subsequent adventure novels and the Ulysses of the East. For so many readers, the name of Sinbad is inseparably linked to that of Scheherazade and The Thousand and One Nights. But the adventures of the intrepid sailor were never part of these Nights, as René R. Khawam shows us in this edition. From the ancient manuscripts, Khawan discovers the real Sinbad, one infinitely closer, although adventure, with its procession of monsters and magicians, from the real and imaginary world, continues to come to the appointment. These are the times when Arab sailors set out to discover the unknown lands of the Indian Ocean, reaching Madagascar and entering the China Sea. Back home, the most pressing desire is to go to the taverns to tell their adventures... And, meanwhile, the reader becomes an astonished spectator of some magical and mythical adventures that allow him to live the eternal fascination of the exotic and the unknown in the sea and in lands populated by disturbing beings. For all these reasons, Sinbad is, by his own merits, a character who is part of the collective memory and universal literature.