Chinese Novels About Miracles
49.99 €
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Chinese Novels About Miracles
49.99 €
What happens when you combine Nikolai Gogol's Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, scary tales and poems by German romantics and move the action to 17th-century China? Pu Songling's Liao Zhai Zhi Yi (Stories of the Strange from Liao's Study) is a unique monument of Chinese literature, not inferior in scope to Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
Liao Zhai, the author's pseudonym and alter ego, is a typical eternal student who failed his exams and is mired in bureaucratic bureaucracy, because of which his career is not going well, and finds an outlet in collecting stories and anecdotes about encounters with the supernatural. Meanwhile, the supernatural persistently interferes with the lives of ordinary people - Taoist monks and sorcerers show their tricks at the market, the new object of passion turns out to be a werewolf, a whole family of demons has settled in an abandoned estate next door, and there is enough paranormal activity in your own home: things fly, a poltergeist fox drives out relatives, and a hungry ghost comes by at night...
Werefoxes, fairies, demons, ghosts, sorcerers live side by side with ordinary people and even in their guise, they can harm out of pure malice and mock human stupidity, or they can help restore justice and settle down in life.
The stories are published in a brilliant classical translation by Vasily Alekseev, a famous philologist and Sinologist, with introductory articles and comments by the translator. And modern Russian artists: Derscher, Soma, EUDJN, Infuria — depicted the most vivid fragments of the short stories and decorated the book with the author's color illustrations for a complete immersion in the atmosphere of dark magic!
An elegant collector's edition of short stories in a leather-like binding, with colored foil stamping and a painted edge with a stylized ornament, will not leave indifferent lovers of beautiful and unusual books and will become a truly imperial gift to yourself, your loved ones and friends. This book, like a box of miracles, will decorate a bookshelf, a bedside table and a large family library, is suitable for long cozy evenings, will make you laugh, scare you and inspire you to create your own miracles!
Liao Zhai, the author's pseudonym and alter ego, is a typical eternal student who failed his exams and is mired in bureaucratic bureaucracy, because of which his career is not going well, and finds an outlet in collecting stories and anecdotes about encounters with the supernatural. Meanwhile, the supernatural persistently interferes with the lives of ordinary people - Taoist monks and sorcerers show their tricks at the market, the new object of passion turns out to be a werewolf, a whole family of demons has settled in an abandoned estate next door, and there is enough paranormal activity in your own home: things fly, a poltergeist fox drives out relatives, and a hungry ghost comes by at night...
Werefoxes, fairies, demons, ghosts, sorcerers live side by side with ordinary people and even in their guise, they can harm out of pure malice and mock human stupidity, or they can help restore justice and settle down in life.
The stories are published in a brilliant classical translation by Vasily Alekseev, a famous philologist and Sinologist, with introductory articles and comments by the translator. And modern Russian artists: Derscher, Soma, EUDJN, Infuria — depicted the most vivid fragments of the short stories and decorated the book with the author's color illustrations for a complete immersion in the atmosphere of dark magic!
An elegant collector's edition of short stories in a leather-like binding, with colored foil stamping and a painted edge with a stylized ornament, will not leave indifferent lovers of beautiful and unusual books and will become a truly imperial gift to yourself, your loved ones and friends. This book, like a box of miracles, will decorate a bookshelf, a bedside table and a large family library, is suitable for long cozy evenings, will make you laugh, scare you and inspire you to create your own miracles!