The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye

{{short description|Short story collection by A. S. Byatt}}

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|author=A. S. Byatt

|image=File:The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye.jpg

|caption=First edition

|publisher=Chatto & Windus (UK)
Random House (US)

|published=1994

|isbn= 0-679-42008-8}}

The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye is a 1994 collection of five mythical short stories by British novelist A. S. Byatt.{{Cite web |last=Berman |first=Ruth |date=February 1998 |title=Review: The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye |url=http://www.mythsoc.org/reviews/djinn-nightingales-eye.htm |access-date=2019-04-03 |website=The Mythopoeic Society |archive-date=3 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403222637/http://www.mythsoc.org/reviews/djinn-nightingales-eye.htm |url-status=live }} The collection includes two short stories, "The Glass Coffin" and "Gode's Story", originally published in the novel Possession, as well as the titular story, "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye", which was published in The Paris Review.{{Cite news |last=Byatt |first=A. S. |date=Winter 1994 |title=The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye |language=en |volume=Winter 1994 |journal=The Paris Review. Interviews. |issue=133 |url=https://www.theparisreview.org/fiction/1722/the-djinn-in-the-nightingales-eye-a-s-byatt |access-date=2019-04-03 |issn=0031-2037 |archive-date=3 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403222642/https://www.theparisreview.org/fiction/1722/the-djinn-in-the-nightingales-eye-a-s-byatt |url-status=live }}

The stories included in The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye adopt many of the conventions of folk or fairy tales to examine contemporary society with many of the common themes in Byatt's work.{{Cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-679-42008-8|title=Fiction Book Review: The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye: Five Fairy Stories by A. S. Byatt, Author Random House (NY) $20 (288p) ISBN 978-0-679-42008-8|website=PublishersWeekly.com|language=en|access-date=2019-04-03|archive-date=3 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190403222635/https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-679-42008-8|url-status=live}} The novella-length title story is highly intertextual, including a "rich collage of fairy tale motifs", referencing folk tales from One Thousand and One Nights, the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and William Shakespeare, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and the myth of Cybele.{{cite book |last1=Unzicker |first1=Florian |title="You Must Be The Prince" - Traditional Fairy Tale Motifs in A.S. Byatt's "The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye" |date=February 2009 |publisher=GRIN Verlag |isbn=978-3-640-27573-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ShKvWMLaWwC&dq=The+Djinn+in+the+Nightingale%27s+Eye&pg=PA121 |language=en |access-date=2 June 2022 |archive-date=26 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220926064531/https://books.google.com/books?id=7ShKvWMLaWwC&dq=The+Djinn+in+the+Nightingale%27s+Eye&pg=PA121 |url-status=live }}

The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye was published with woodcut illustrations. Reviews of the book were generally positive.{{Cite web |last=Orthofer |first=M.A. |title=The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye - A.S.Byatt |url=http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/byattas/djinneye.htm |access-date=2019-04-03 |website=the complete review |archive-date=18 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190418163703/http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/byattas/djinneye.htm |url-status=live }}

Writer-director George Miller's 2022 film Three Thousand Years of Longing is based on the title story of this collection.{{cite web |url=https://www.slashfilm.com/867137/three-thousand-years-of-longing-footage-reveals-first-look-at-george-millers-new-movie/ |title=Three Thousand Years Of Longing Footage Reveals First Look At George Miller's New Movie |last=Mathai |first=Jeremy |date=2022-05-18 |website=/Film |publisher= |access-date=2022-02-22 |archive-date=18 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220518163934/https://www.slashfilm.com/867137/three-thousand-years-of-longing-footage-reveals-first-look-at-george-millers-new-movie/ |url-status=live }}