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- Even with the apparent verification of the Djinn being real in the movie's last scene, Three Thousand Years of Longing is very much a fairy tale in how it recounts the Djinn's life story and his meeting with Alithea and there is likely some embellishment to aspects of the stories, either by Alithea or the Djinn himself.
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The novella-length title story is highly intertextual, including a "rich collage of fairy tale motifs", referencing folk tales from One Thousand and One Nights, the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and William Shakespeare, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and the myth of Cybele.
- A. S. Byatt
- 1994
Jan 1, 1994 · Four short stories precede The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye, and they are fairy tale works of wonder with glittering language and bewitching imagery. "Dragons' Breath," in particular, reads as if it were penned by Tolkien.
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She was merely a narratologist, a being of secondary order, whose days were spent hunched in great libraries scrying, interpreting, decoding the fairy-tales of childhood and the vodka-posters of the grown-up world, the unending romances of golden coffee-drinkers, and the impeded couplings of doctors and nurses, dukes and poor maidens ...
It’s a fairly standard princess-rescuing sort of fairy tale, starring a young man who chooses adventure over good sense, and is rewarded for it. Then comes “Gode’s Story,” also from Possession , which is about a man who returns from the sea to find his lover deeply changed.
In it, you find a female narratologist, Gillian Perholt (wink to the famous French fairy-tale writer Perrault), who is going through a midlife crisis sparkled by the fact that her husband has left her for a much younger woman.
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- A S Byatt
About The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye. A stunning collection of fairy tales for grown-ups from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession, a “storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights” (The New York Times Book Review).
Oct 27, 1998 · 4.4 420 ratings. See all formats and editions. A stunning collection of fairy tales for grown-ups from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession, a "storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights" (The New York Times Book Review).
