arabian nights

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Pasolini did an X-rated (at the time, anyway) version of it in the 70's.  pretty good, though I have no idea whether it adhered to or captured the original in any way.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: bob mccart <lebishar at gmail.com>
>Sent: Sep 7, 2006 11:01 PM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: arabian nights
>
>Have any of you read the Arabian Nights tales? Would you recommend them or a
>class dedicated to them? Real literature? Infleunce on western literature,
>specifically the picaresque and brazen humor illistrated in not only
>Candide, but an american author as well--