TY - BOOK AU - Eroshenko,Vasili�i AU - Kuplowsky,Adam AU - Zipes,Jack TI - The narrow cage and other modern fairy tales T2 - Weatherhead books on Asia SN - 9780231557085 AV - PL805.R67 A2 2023eb U1 - 398.2 23/eng/20221107 PY - 2023///] CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Eroshenko, Vasili�i, KW - LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / Japanese KW - bisacsh KW - fairy tales KW - aat KW - Fairy tales KW - fast KW - Translations KW - lcgft KW - Contes de f�ees KW - rvmgf KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Part I. Japanese Tales (1915-1921) -- The Tale of the Paper Lantern -- The Sad Little Fish -- The Scholar's Head -- By a Pond -- An Eagle's Heart -- Little Pine -- A Spring Night's Dream -- The Martyr -- The Death of the Canary -- The Mad Cat -- For the Sake of Mankind -- Two Little Deaths -- The Narrow Cage -- Part II. Chinese Tales (1921-1923) -- From Tales of a Withered Leaf -- The Tragedy of the Chick -- Father Time -- The Red Flower -- Appendix -- Easter -- Some Pages from My School Days -- My Expulsion from Japan -- Chukchi Pastoral -- Chukchi Elegy N2 - "Born in the ethnically Ukrainian village of Obukhovka (then part of the Russian Empire) in 1890, Eroshenko was blinded at the age of four by measles. After receiving an education at the Moscow School for the Blind and the Royal Normal College for the Blind, in London, where he studied Esperanto and music, Eroshenko travelled to Japan, China, Myanmar, and India, working at times as a musician, writer, teacher, and masseur. In Japan, he befriended a variety of left-wing artistic figures and activists, who taught him Japanese and encouraged him to write fairy tales. Although Eroshenko was expelled from Japan in 1921 for his anarchist and socialist connections, his tales attracted the attention of Chinese modernist Lu Xun, who famously translated them and welcomed the young author to his home in Beijing. This volume consists of 18 fairytales written in Japan and China and brief appendix with some semi-autobiographical pieces. Eroshenko's work should enter the public domain in 2022"-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3340205 ER -