Description: "A splendid modern work. . . . What baroque dreams, grotesque scenes, ghostly, ridiculous, strange, and chilling brainstorms!. . . All of this is remarkable, original, and uncanny. . . . I recommend that readers go and find some good time to spend with this beautiful book." --Thomas Mann "Flirting with aestheticism and exoticism, Bla Balzs's fairy tales draw their power from an oracular voice that traces paths of desire, dread, rapture, and sorrow. A master stylist, Balzs puts us in touch with the sublime through velvety prose that mimics the brush strokes of master calligraphers. Jack Zipes's introduction tells its own fascinating tale about how a Hungarian writer and intellectual found redemption in fairy tales." --Maria Tatar, author of Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood "These fairy tales are wonderful, touching, and fantastic--you can feel the giddy liberty Balzs gave himself in writing them. I enthusiastically recommend them to anyone who can still feel the pleasure of being kidnapped by fantasy and being taken away to a land that is both vividly colored and intellectually curious. The collection is a delight and Jack Zipes's introduction is splendid." --Andrei Codrescu, author of The Posthuman Dada Guide "This translation of what Thomas Mann called a 'beautiful book' will enchant readers. Balzs creates a world of dreams in which the alienation of man from woman and soul from body is imaginatively overcome." --Lee Congdon, James Madison University "A poet in many genres--verse, drama, short stories, tales, novels, diaries, memoirs, philosophy, films, and film theory--Bla Balzs was one of the great dreamers of Hungary's sensational fin-de-sicle generation. His long journey from Szeged, Hungary led him through Budapest, Vienna, Berlin, and Moscow, and back to Budapest. These Chinese fairy tales reflect Balzs's wisdom, his powers of visual imagery, psychological insight, and playfulness." --Tibor Frank, Etvs Lornd University, Budapest "An astonishing find that deserves to be brought to light. The translations are beautifully poetic and a joy to read." --Anton Kaes, University of California, Berkeley "These wonderful and bizarre tales are at once complex and simple. I found myself rereading several and discovering each time some new and wondrous twist and detail." --Nora M. Alter, Temple University

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