By Béla Balázs
A guy is modified right into a flea and needs to convey his destiny mom and dad jointly so one can turn into human back. a lady convinces a river god to therapy her ill son, however the treatment has combined outcomes. a tender guy needs to decide on no matter if to be just about his wife's soul or physique. And deaf mutes go beyond their actual life within the backyard of desires. unusual and fantastical, those fairy stories of Béla Balázs (1884-1949), Hungarian author, movie critic, and recognized librettist of Bluebeard's Castle, replicate his profound curiosity in friendship, alienation, and Taoist philosophy. Translated and brought via Jack Zipes, one of many world's top gurus on fairy stories, The Cloak of Dreams brings jointly 16 of Balázs's special and haunting stories.
Written in 1921, those fairy stories have been initially released with twenty pictures drawn within the chinese language variety by means of painter Mariette Lydis, and this new version contains a collection of Lydis's outstanding illustrations. jointly, the stories and images intensify the motifs and topics that run all through Balázs's paintings: wandering protagonists, mysterious woods and mountains, solitude, and magical transformation. His fairy stories exhibit our private wants and the desire that, even in the course of tragedy, we will go beyond our problems and forge our personal destinies.
strange, wondrous fairy stories that research the world's cruelties and twists of destiny, The Cloak of Dreams will entertain, startle, and intrigue.
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