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Russian Magic Tales From Pushkin To Platonov
Paperback Edition: 1/2013
'She turned into a frog, into a lizard, into all kinds of other reptiles and then into a spindle'. In these tales, young women go on long and difficult quests, wicked stepmothers turn children into geese and tsars ask dangerous riddles, with help or hindrance
from magical dolls, cannibal witches, talking skulls, stolen wives, and brothers disguised as wise birds. Half the tales here are true oral tales, collected by folklorists during the last two centuries, while the others are reworking of oral tales by four great Russian writers: Alexander Pushkin, Nadezhda Teffi, Pavel Bazhov and Andrey Platonov. In his introduction to these new translations, Robert Chandler writes about the primitive magic inherent in these tales and the taboos around them, while in the afterword, Sibelan Forrester discusses the witch Baba Yaga. This edition also includes an appendix, bibliography and notes. This is translated by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler with Sibelan Forrester, Anna Gunin and Olga Meerson.
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Pages : 496
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Publication date : 2013-01-02
Subjects: Fiction, Non-fiction, Classics (pre C.1945), Contemporary, Social Sciences, Myth & Legend Told As Fiction, Historical Fiction, Short Stories, Sociology, Folklore, Myths & Legends