Feinyia skazki. Detskiia pesenki. [A Fairy s Fairy Tales]

BALMONT, Konstantin

Verlag: Moscow, Grif, 1905

Beschreibung

THE EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS CHARMING COLLECTION OF FAIRY TALES WRITTEN FOR THE AUTHOR S DAUGHTER NINA, WRITTEN AT A TIME WHEN THE POET S CREATIVITY WAS CONSIDERED TO HAVE BEEN IN DECLINE, BUT PROBABLY MORE SO A TIME WHEN BALMONT RECONSIDERED HIS LIFE PRIORITIES. Feinye Skazki, subtitled Children s songs is a book Balmont dedicated to his daughter Nina, who was four at the time of publication. Nina s mother was Balmont s second wife, Ekaterina Andreeva. In these poems Balmont reveals an awareness of the small things that surround us and a childlike ability to feel amazement and joy at this miniature life. The unimportant things in nature are brought out, or, in Vera Zhibul s words, in the familiar the miraculous unfolds, and then again, in the visible that which cannot be seen . It is a fairy-tale realm, open only to the child and the poet, as Balmont s colleague Valery Bryusov pointed out. Earth with its flowers, insects, midges and small beetles and gnomes, is seen as the triumph of eternal beauty. A grain of sand or snowflakes on a child s tiny little finger are perceived with wonder. At the centre of Balmont s poetic world is the Fairy, everyone s darling. For the poet she is his seductive Muse, turning reality into magic (Ben Hellman, Fairy Tales and True Stories: The History of Russian Literature for Children p. 230). The collection contains 71 poems, including the dedication. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1618338735844

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Feinyia skazki. Detskiia pesenki. [A Fairy s...

Verlag: Moscow, Grif

Erscheinungsdatum: 1905

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: 1st Edition