The Young Franks. Novellas. Tales. In 2 volumes
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The Young Franks. Novellas. Tales. In 2 volumes
99.99 €
This edition is based on three collections. The main one is "Mladofranki", a book by an artist about artists, a parody squared. Gautier's world is the world of the artist, seen through his eyes and captured by him, vivid pictures of Parisian life, snatched from the stream of time and carefully transferred to the canvas; often it is a verbal story, likened to a graphic image of a verbal description of an object with the image of another object (people, animals, genre scenes), a reflection of reflection inside out. In Gautier's own words, "a painting that lacks only a frame and a nail to hang it.
As if in a magic lantern, before the reader passes a bizarre parade of characters - Egyptian mummies and vampires, artists-unskilled and national guardsmen, painters and bourgeois. All of Gautier's characters are "artists" in their own way: a shepherd boy becomes a famous Parisian painter, an unskilled artist and a rural priest-curé, and a cranky inventor, a flying man, and a virtuoso evading the service of the National Guard. Dreams and phantasmagoria, narcotic visions and marvelous dreams are woven into a vivid tangle; antiquity and modernity go hand in hand and seem to descend from the pictures (including literally, as in the short story "Omphala").
Many of these works are published in Russian for the first time, translations of the rest are verified according to the originals. Of particular interest is the section "Fairy Tales", composed of works addressed to young readers and female readers. Written for children's magazines and kipsecs (editions of drawings and engravings with small text), they appeared at a time when children's literature in France was booming, and can rightly be called its brightest examples. As in the case of the novels, the reader will find a picturesque variety: a Chinese legend, a Scandinavian prose ballad, an Arabian fairy tale, magical stories in the manner of Madame d'Onois....
The section "Additions" includes early works by Gautier, still imitative, but interesting as "pen tests", which outline the plots of future novels of the mature author. There is also a selection of Leon Gozlan's feuilletons about the Young Franks, which allows us to take a closer look at these bohemian weirdos - Gautier's contemporaries and characters. The scientific apparatus includes an article by S.N. Zenkin "Théophile Gautier - writer-artist", as well as a detailed commentary.
It is recommended to the widest range of readers.
As if in a magic lantern, before the reader passes a bizarre parade of characters - Egyptian mummies and vampires, artists-unskilled and national guardsmen, painters and bourgeois. All of Gautier's characters are "artists" in their own way: a shepherd boy becomes a famous Parisian painter, an unskilled artist and a rural priest-curé, and a cranky inventor, a flying man, and a virtuoso evading the service of the National Guard. Dreams and phantasmagoria, narcotic visions and marvelous dreams are woven into a vivid tangle; antiquity and modernity go hand in hand and seem to descend from the pictures (including literally, as in the short story "Omphala").
Many of these works are published in Russian for the first time, translations of the rest are verified according to the originals. Of particular interest is the section "Fairy Tales", composed of works addressed to young readers and female readers. Written for children's magazines and kipsecs (editions of drawings and engravings with small text), they appeared at a time when children's literature in France was booming, and can rightly be called its brightest examples. As in the case of the novels, the reader will find a picturesque variety: a Chinese legend, a Scandinavian prose ballad, an Arabian fairy tale, magical stories in the manner of Madame d'Onois....
The section "Additions" includes early works by Gautier, still imitative, but interesting as "pen tests", which outline the plots of future novels of the mature author. There is also a selection of Leon Gozlan's feuilletons about the Young Franks, which allows us to take a closer look at these bohemian weirdos - Gautier's contemporaries and characters. The scientific apparatus includes an article by S.N. Zenkin "Théophile Gautier - writer-artist", as well as a detailed commentary.
It is recommended to the widest range of readers.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Literary monuments