Hungarian folktales : the art of Zsuzsanna Palkó
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Hungarian folktales : the art of Zsuzsanna Palkó
（Garland reference library of the humanities, vol. 1736）（World folktale library, vol. 2）
Garland Pub., c1995
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Includes bibliographical references (p. xxii) and index
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ISBN 9780815313373
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First published in 1996. There has been no more important relationship between folk artist and folklorist than that between Zsuzsanna Palko and Linda Degh. Degh's painstaking collection of Mrs. Palko's tales attracted the admiration of the Hungarian-speaking world. In 1954 Mrs. Palko was named Master of Folklore by the Hungarian government and summoned to Budapest to receive ceremonial recognition. The unlettered 74-year-old woman from Kakasd had become "Aunt Zsuzsi" to Linda Degh-and was about to become one of the world's best known storytellers, through Degh's work.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The Tales
- Chapter 1 I Don't Know
- Chapter 2 Zsuzska and the Devil
- Chapter 3 Death with the Yellow Legs
- Chapter 4 The Glass Coffin
- Chapter 5 The Count and Janos, the Coachman
- Chapter 6 The Princess
- Chapter 7 The Serpent Prince
- Chapter 8 The Fawn
- Chapter 9 Jozsi the Fisherman
- Chapter 10 The Sky-High Tree
- Chapter 11 The Blackmantle
- Chapter 12 Prince Sandor and Prince Lajos
- Chapter 13 Andras Kerekes
- Chapter 14 The Psalm-Singing Bird
- Chapter 15 Peasant Gagyi
- Chapter 16 The Golden Egg
- Chapter 17 Nine
- Chapter 18 The Red-Bellied Serpent
- Chapter 19 The Twelve Robbers
- Chapter 20 Fairy Ilona
- Chapter 21 The Three Archangels
- Chapter 22 The Smoking Kalfaktor
- Chapter 23 The Turk
- Chapter 24 Anna Monar
- Chapter 25 The Wager of the Two Comrades
- Chapter 26 The Szekely Bride
- Chapter 27 The Nagging Wives
- Chapter 28 Peti and Boris
- Chapter 29 Koenyvenke
- Chapter 30 The Uncouth Girl
- Chapter 31 The Dumb Girl
- Chapter 32 The Two Brothers
- Chapter 33 The Gypsy King
- Chapter 34 Gabor Nemet
- Chapter 35 Margit
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:pbk ISBN 9780878059126
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This annotated collection of thirty-five folktales represents the repertoire of one of the world's greatest storytellers, Zsuzsanna Palko, a Hungarian peasant woman whose art kept listeners spellbound through many winter nights and wakes.Before publication of Hungarian Folktales, Zsuzsanna Palko was one of the best known but least read folktale tellers of our time. Having first gained renown through Linda Degh's classic Folktales and Society, she became a familiar name to readers of European folktales. However, because few of her tales had been translated from her Hungarian dialect, thousands who knew her by reputation had little chance to experience her art. Hungarian Folktales gives readers of English their long-awaited opportunity to experience her verbal magic as her village audience did. Linda Degh unobtrusively recorded Mrs. Palko as she told stories to her neighbors, and the verbatim transcripts preserved the natural beauty of spontaneous narration, unlike most tales in print today, which have been rewritten to the point of obscuring the voice of the original storytellers.In Mrs. Palko's masterful magic tales, the imaginative world of dragons, talking animals, and castles on rooster feet also embraces ordinary hardworking farmers and artisans like those in her Hungarian audiences. In earthly and humorous tales, she uses comedy to present models of appropriate behavior for the girls and young women of her village. In other tales fantasy merges with folk belief to create chilling accounts of the supernatural.In her introduction, Degh describes Mrs. Palko and the Szekely Hungarian culture in which she lived. In notes to each tale, she explains cultural references, discussesvariants of the tale, and relates the performance style and storytelling situation.
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