The Narrow Cage and Other Modern Fairy Tales Eroshenko Vasily
The Narrow Cage and Other Modern Fairy Tales Eroshenko Vasily Vasily Eroshenko was one of the most remarkable transnational literary figures of the early twentieth century: a blind multilingual…
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The Narrow Cage and Other Modern Fairy Tales Eroshenko Vasily
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. Seeking to escape the limitations imposed on the blind, Eroshenko became a globe-trotting storyteller. Born in a small Ukrainian village in imperial Russia, he was blinded at a young age by complications from measles.
These fables tell the stories of a religiously disillusioned fish, a 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.
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