![]() ![]() Irwin's protagonist Balian falls into a nightmare which causes infinite suffering and cannot be recollected upon awakening each further descent embeds itself deeper into the overall structure but there is no end to the nightmare, though the Ape of God – who in The Arabian Nightmare iterates the final instalment of Balian's ordeal – may be telling us that Balian is now in Hell. (1946- ) UK academic and author whose work in Arabian studies, of importance in itself, underpins the world envisioned in his first and most famous novel, The Arabian Nightmare ( 19), which may be the definitive rendering of its central conceit: the dream narrative whose protagonist, upon seeming to awaken, only finds himself passing through a Portal into a deeper dream. ![]()
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