«Magic lamp of Aladdin" - one of the most famous cycle of fairy tales "Thousand and One Nights."By the way, in fact, in the book it is called "Aladdin and the magic lamp."But in 1966 the Soviet Union there was a wonderful film based on a fairy tale story.Screen version immediately became very popular, because in the memory of many people (and even entire generations) is deposited not the name of a literary masterpiece, but the film's title - "The Magic lamp of Aladdin".Let's talk today about some of the facts that you may not know.
Tales from the collection of "1001 Nights" - one of the greatest treasures of the world.They exist for thousands of years and include magical stories that have been passed from mouth to mouth in Persia, Arabia, India and Asia.Fairy tales are known to share a common frame story: every night they said the young wife of the Sultan Shahriyar, Scheherazade, her husband to save his life.History is so entertaining that, contrary to tradition, Shahriyar could not execute his wife - because he wanted to learn the continuation of the story.
tale "The Magic lamp of Aladdin" narrated by Scheherazade in the 514 th night.Many modern scholars, linguists believe that the initial collection of Arab tales of "1000 Nights" was not part of, and has been brought into it a little bit later.Some even suspected of falsifying the first interpreter of the collection, opened his Western readers - Antoine Galland.One way or another, but the tale was published, and became more popular than those whose authenticity is not disputed by experts.
Interestingly, not only the Frenchman Galland could impose on us their vision of the Arab-Persian world.In the creation of the legend could take part each translator of the book.For example, in the English version of the fairy tale events happening in China, and the villain-uncle is the main character from Morocco.British researchers believe that these names are rather relative, they have to symbolize the east and west respectively, or even translation of the word "far away» («far far away», as they say in the Western fairy tales).
As is known, Russian translation for events occurring, in all probability, in Baghdad, and his uncle is coming from the Maghreb.As with any product, in this magical stories you can find many parallels with the famous fairy tale.We are faced with a motive forbidden room, refers to the fairy tale "Bluebeard", the motive of struggle "regular guy" against the power (compare with the history of "Jack and the Beanstalk"), the desire to marry a princess (present in almost any fairy tale), and so on.
«Aladdin's Magic Lamp" has inspired many artists and writers to create their own images.Thus, many researchers believe that the fairy tale by Andersen "Flint" was created under the obvious influence of the stories from the "Arabian Nights."Soviet readers well acquainted way Hottabych funny genie who comes from a clay vessel found Wolken Kostylkovym pioneer in the bottom of the river.
Why so popular "Magic Lamp of Aladdin"?Arabian tale (or, as we have seen, later layering Western history) shows us the growth of the individual from the lazy, stupid and quite gullible teenager to an enterprising young man ready to fight for their happiness.Of course, Aladdin little resemblance to the characters of Slavic fairy tales.It embodies the ideals and other features, but this is something we and interesting.In addition, in the pages of a fairy tale "The Magic lamp of Aladdin" created a wonderful magical world, capable of capturing the imagination of both children and adults.
