The narrow cage and other modern fairy tales / Vasily Eroshenko ; translated by Adam Kuplowsky ; foreword by Jack Zipes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eroshenko, Vasiliĭ, 1890-1952, author.

Contributor:

Kuplowsky, Adam, translator.

Zipes, Jack, 1937- writer of foreword.

Series:

Weatherhead books on Asia.

Weatherhead Books on Asia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eroshenko, Vasiliĭ, 1890-1952.

Eroshenko, Vasiliĭ.

Fairy tales.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Vasily Eroshenko was one of the most remarkable transnational literary figures of the early twentieth century: a blind multilingual Esperantist from Ukraine who joined left-wing circles in Japan and befriended the writer Lu Xun in China. This book presents a selection of his stories, translated from Japanese and Esperanto, to English readers.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Foreword: The Piercing Truths of a Blind Storyteller, by Jack Zipes

Acknowledgments

Introduction, by Adam Kuplowsky

Part I. Japanese Tales (1915-1921)

1. The Tale of the Paper Lantern

2. The Sad Little Fish

3. The Scholar's Head

4. By a Pond

5. An Eagle's Heart

6. Little Pine

7. A Spring Night's Dream

8. The Martyr

9. The Death of the Canary

10. The Mad Cat

11. For the Sake of Mankind

12. Two Little Deaths

13. The Narrow Cage

Part II. Chinese Tales (1921-1923)

14. From "Tales of a Withered Leaf"

15. The Tragedy of the Chick

16. Father Time

17. The Red Flower

Appendix

Easter

Some Pages from My School Days

My Expulsion from Japan

Chukchi Pastoral

Chukchi Elegy

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-231-55708-6

OCLC:

1374541099