Marcas de oralidade e memória no Livro das mil e uma noites

Abstract

This paper aims to find traces of orality and techniques of memory in some versions of The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night. It stems, thus, from some reflections on the techniques of memory used by the Arab culture that were inherited from the Greek art of memory. These traces are analyzed under three perspectives: as sortilege (in the manner of Mnemosyne), as a way to imprint rhythm and cadency on the tales, and as the architecture of memory.