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About This Novel
"Five Days Talk" is a collection of stories written by Jimbartista Basile. The book was written in Neapolitan and published under the pseudonym "Gian Alesio Abbattutis" between 1634 and 1636 after Basil's death, in 2 volumes. The "Five Days Talk" appeared nearly half a century earlier than Charles Perrault's "The Tale of Mother Goose" and nearly two centuries earlier than the Brothers Grimm's collection of fairy tales. It was the first European literary collection composed of fairy tales. Although the book had received a cold reception, the Brothers Grimm highly praised it as the first collection of national fairy tales in the third edition of "Grimm's Fairy Tales", believing that it was consistent with their own romantic nationalist views on fairy tales. This made "Five Days Talk" famous after that. Many of the stories in the Five Days Talk are the oldest known versions of these stories today.
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Official(4)Scraped 4d ago
I watched a movie and found it interesting. Let's read the novel.
Read the original novel. . . . . .
Translated by Wang Lei again, there are only 37 stories left out of 50 →_→
I have read many familiar fairy tales, which originally came from this. This is the inheritance of civilization, right?
story within story
The description of the characters or scenes is like a painting unfolding before your eyes. Each story seems to be analyzing human nature. It is very fantasy and I like it very much. Hopefully there will be many more versions of the translation.
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Community(0)
Official(4)Scraped 4d ago
I watched a movie and found it interesting. Let's read the novel.
Read the original novel. . . . . .
Translated by Wang Lei again, there are only 37 stories left out of 50 →_→
I have read many familiar fairy tales, which originally came from this. This is the inheritance of civilization, right?
story within story
The description of the characters or scenes is like a painting unfolding before your eyes. Each story seems to be analyzing human nature. It is very fantasy and I like it very much. Hopefully there will be many more versions of the translation.
