The narrow cage and other modern fairy tales
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The narrow cage and other modern fairy tales
(Weatherhead books on Asia)
Columbia University Press, c2023
- : hardback
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)
"This book presents a selection of his stories, translated from Japanese and Esperanto"--Back cover
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-252)
Contents of Works
- 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
- From "Tales of a withered leaf"
- The tragedy of the chick
- Father time
- The red flower
- Easter
- Some pages from my school days
- My expulsion from Japan
- Chukchi pastoral
- Chukchi elegy
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 famous modernist writer Lu Xun in China. Born in a small Ukrainian village in imperial Russia, he was blinded at a young age by complications from measles. Seeking to escape the limitations imposed on the blind, Eroshenko became a globe-trotting storyteller. He was well known in Japan and China as a social activist and a popular writer of political fairy tales that drew comparisons to Hans Christian Andersen and Oscar Wilde.
The Narrow Cage and Other Modern Fairy Tales presents a selection of Eroshenko's stories, translated from Japanese and Esperanto, to English readers for the first time. These fables tell the stories of a religiously disillusioned fish, a jealous paper lantern, a scholarly young mouse, a captive tiger who seeks to liberate his fellow animals, and many more. They are at once inventive and politically charged experiments with the fairy tale genre and charming, lyrical stories that will captivate readers as much today as they did during Eroshenko's lifetime. In addition to eighteen fairy tales, the book includes semiautobiographical writings and prose poems that vividly evoke Eroshenko's life and world.
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
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