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The narrow cage and other modern fairy tales / Vasily Eroshenko ; translated by Adam Kuplowsky ; foreword by Jack Zipes.
Author
Eroshenko, Vasiliĭ, 1890-1952
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Columbia University Press, [2023]
Description
xlvii, 252 pages ; 22 cm.
Details
Subject(s)
Eroshenko, Vasiliĭ 1890-1952
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Translations into English
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Translator
Kuplowsky, Adam
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Writer of foreword
Zipes, Jack, 1937-
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Fairy tales
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Series
Weatherhead books on Asia
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Weatherhead Books on Asia.
Summary note
"Born in the ethnically Ukrainian village of Obukhovka (then part of the Russian Empire) in 1890, Eroshenko was blinded at the age of four by measles. After receiving an education at the Moscow School for the Blind and the Royal Normal College for the Blind, in London, where he studied Esperanto and music, Eroshenko travelled to Japan, China, Myanmar, and India, working at times as a musician, writer, teacher, and masseur. In Japan, he befriended a variety of left-wing artistic figures and activists, who taught him Japanese and encouraged him to write fairy tales. Although Eroshenko was expelled from Japan in 1921 for his anarchist and socialist connections, his tales attracted the attention of Chinese modernist Lu Xun, who famously translated them and welcomed the young author to his home in Beijing. This volume consists of 18 fairytales written in Japan and China and brief appendix with some semi-autobiographical pieces. Eroshenko's work should enter the public domain in 2022"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references.
Language note
Translated from Japanese and Esperanto.
Contents
Part I. Japanese Tales (1915-1921)
The Tale of the Paper Lantern
The Sad Little Fish
The Scholar's Head
By a Pond
An Eagle's Heart
Little Pine
A Spring Night's Dream
The Martyr
The Death of the Canary
The Mad Cat
For the Sake of Mankind
Two Little Deaths
The Narrow Cage
Part II. Chinese Tales (1921-1923)
From Tales of a Withered Leaf
The Tragedy of the Chick
Father Time
The Red Flower
Appendix
Easter
Some Pages from My School Days
My Expulsion from Japan
Chukchi Pastoral
Chukchi Elegy.
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ISBN
9780231207683 (hardcover)
0231207689 (hardcover)
9780231207690 (paperback)
0231207697 (paperback)
LCCN
2022025114
OCLC
1337143203
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