Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov
Authors and Contributors      Translated by Robert Chandler
Translated by Robert Chandler
Translated by Robert Chandler
Edited by Robert Chandler
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:496
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreMyth and legend told as fiction
ISBN/Barcode 9780141442235
ClassificationsDewey:398.20947
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint Penguin Classics
Publication Date 6 December 2012
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

A unique and enchanting collection of Russian folk tales collected over the last two centuries In these tales, young women go on long and difficult quests, wicked stepmothers turn children into geese and tsars ask dangerous riddles, with help or hindrance from magical dolls, cannibal witches, talking skulls, stolen wives, and brothers disguised as wise birds. Half the tales here are true oral tales, collected by folklorists during the last two centuries, while the others are reworkings of oral tales by four great Russian writers- Alexander Pushkin, Nadezhda Teffi, Pavel Bazhov and Andrey Platonov.

Author Biography

Robert Chandler is a poet and translator. His translations from Russian include Aleksandr Pushkin's Dubrovsky and The Captain's Daughter, Nikolay Leskov's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate and The Road. With his wife Elizabeth and other colleagues he has co-translated numerous works by Andrey Platonov; Soul won the 2004 American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages award for best translation from a Slavonic language, as did his translation of The Railway by the contemporary Uzbek novelist Hamid Ismailov. His Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida is published in Penguin Classics.

Reviews

This is a unique, beautifully edited book: an essential addition to the library of any Russophile * Spectator * Evoking the realm 'across thrice nine lands', [this book offers] us a richly imagined perspective on our own world * The Times Literary Supplement *