『천일야화』의 “꿈인지 생신지 모르는 사람” 이야기와 스페인 문학

History of "The awakened sleeper" of The Thousand and one nights and Spanish Literature

In The Thousand and one nights a vast cycle of stories and anecdotes is devoted to the caliph Harun al-Rashid. And the "Harun cycle" is very interesting for its remarkable unity in conception, material and tone. Among the "Harun cycle" stories, the history of "the awakened sleeper" is the most famous story and influences many great european works. Now it is interesting to observe the spanish representative works which are affected by "The awakened sleeper" story. Among the medieval and golden age spanish works, we can find clear influence of "the awakened sleeper" in the Disciplina Clericalis of Pedro Alonso, La lozana andaluza of Francisco Delicado, Epistola a don Francisco Duque de Bejar of Luis Vives and El natural desdichado of Agustin de Rojas Villandrando. But all these works do not sublimate this story into the higher literary level, but treat "the awakened sleeper" as a material for the writing. This story, however, overcomes simple relation of influence in La vida es sueño of Calderon de la Barca, one of the greatest theatres of the spanish golden age(17th century). Because this comedia recreates "the awakened sleeper" story perfectly. Of course it is impossible to verify the detailed information of transition process of this story into spanish literature. But through this study we can verify many stories of The thousand and one nights, specially "the awakened sleeper" was expaneded and recreated constantly in the spanish literature.