Author: Ervin Lazar
Number Of Pages: 117
Publisher: Corvina Books
Release Date: 01-12-2015
Details: Among those in Hungary who were educated by tales, there is hardly anyone to whom caharacters such as Dömdödöm, Aromó, Mikkamakka, Seraphin the Horse, or Bruckner Sigfrid sound unfamiliar. Ervin Lázár's ingenuity and creative fantasy knew no limits. He created unique figures such as a fairy of seven heads, used a multi-layered language and matchless vocabulary. The charming stories of his fairy world help us understand the painstaking quest for truth coupled with a great sense of humour that are inherent in the "Hungarian soul". The Devil's Horseshoe and Other Stories is based on the author's experiences as a child growing up in a remote Hungarian village where the people were poor in goods, but rich in tales. Through the telling of fifteen stories, it brings to life the wondrous world of the countryside as people experienced it, which throbs to a different rhythm than the world of city folk. From a naked angel boy who sneaks into a kitchen to pilfer kitchen utensilsat night ("The Sneak Thief"), through a village blacksmith who shoes the Devil's horse (Devil's horseshoe), and the tale of a Party functionary who comes to portion out the land among the peasants but dazed by his power over them leaves with a promise to resurrect the dead ("The China Doll"), each story takes on the quality of a hallucinatory exploration into that part of the soul where beauty, hope, and yearning live in close proximity, and where miracles are a way of life. The lively story-telling, the sparse yet evocative beauty of the language, the persistent yet nonobtrusive narrative presence, make The Devil' Horseshoe and Other Stories a memorable and highly enjoyable example of a very special brand of folk surrealism, the Central Europen counterpart of the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez, but most especially, Isabel Allende /// This is a great product sourced from BIML- Bible In My Language, the leader in foreign language Bibles and outreach materials from Baltimore, Maryland in the USA
EAN: 9789631362947
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