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Narrow Cage and Other Modern Fairy Tales

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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.

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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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Vasily Eroshenko. Translated by Adam Kuplowsky. Foreword by Jack Zipes

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.

Product details

Authors Vasily Eroshenko
Assisted by Adam Kuplowsky (Translation)
Publisher Columbia University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 13.01.2023
 
EAN 9780231207690
ISBN 978-0-231-20769-0
No. of pages 304
Series Weatherhead Books on Asia
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / Japanese, Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Russian & Soviet, LITERARY COLLECTIONS

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