The Complete Russian Folktale: V. 5: Russian Legends

ISBN-13: 9781563244933 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 240 str.

Jack V. Haney

Opis

Richly represented in the Russian folktale tradition, the legends are religious tales (types 750-849 in the Aame-Thompson index) in a peasant village setting. Among the standard themes is the return of Christ, who wanders through rural Russia with his disciples. Satan appears here too, as do a cast of spirits and lesser devils. Pre-Christian gods may be recognized in tales of saints Ilya and Nikolai (Elijah and Saint Nicholas). The hapless peasant in these tales - cheated, betrayed, impoverished, foolish, orphaned, crippled - take the reader deep into the traditional village culture of Russia and into the imperfect human quest for moral choice and justice on this earth.

Spis treści

Chapter 401 The Poor Man; Chapter 402 A Tale; Chapter 403 About Ivanushka; Chapter 404 The Poor Widow; Chapter 405 The Guest; Chapter 406 The Serpent; Chapter 407 The Envious Rich Man; Chapter 408, The Rich Peasant; Chapter 409 A Magic Threshing; Chapter 410 About Il’ia; Chapter 411, The Blacksmith and the Devil; Chapter 412 The Hermit and the Devil; Chapter 413 Saying Your Soul; Chapter 414 Sin and Repentance; Chapter 415 The Archpriest’s Daughter; Chapter 416 A Thief Forgiven; Chapter 417 The Proud Rich Man; Chapter 418, Tsar David’s Lust; Chapter 419 Ivan the Merchant’s Son Tells Off the Tsar’s Daughter; Chapter 420 Money; Chapter 421 The Death of the Miser; Chapter 422 The Landowner’s Revenge; Chapter 423 Are There Priests Without Sin?; Chapter 424 Laboring for the Forest Spirit; Chapter 425 The Fiddler in Hell; Chapter 426 Money is Evil; Chapter 427 The Devil and the Landowner; Chapter 428 Infanticide Punished by Serpents; Chapter 429 The Bigamist; Chapter 430 Dusk Burnt Over; Chapter 431 (Sts. Kuz’ma and Demian and the Piglets); Chapter 432 The Old Woman in Church; Chapter 433 The Priest Musician; Chapter 434 (Curse the Mub); Chapter 435 Mother; Chapter 436 The Greedy Sons; Chapter 437 The Cursed Son; Chapter 438 The Golden Saucer and the Silver Apple; Chapter 439 My Brothers Killed Me; Chapter 440 Father and Daughter; Chapter 441 The Ass’s Ears; Chapter 442 The Priest and Nikolai the Wonderworker; Chapter 443 The Unlucky Peasant and Nikolai the Gracious; Chapter 444 Kas’ian and nikolai; Chapter 445 Whoever Desires Less Will Be Given More (Version 1); Chapter 446 Why Women Lost Their Rights (Version 2); Chapter 447 Why People Don’t Know When They’re Going to Die; Chapter 448 An Angel on Earth; Chapter 449 The Angel of God and the Passerby; Chapter 450 The Pilgrim; Chapter 451 God’s Godson; Chapter 452 A Tale of a Drunkard; Chapter 453 To Heaven or to Hell?; Chapter 454 A Shoemaker in Heaven; Chapter 455 About a Sly Soldier; Chapter 456 The Devil and the Smith;

O autorze

Jack V. Haney received bachelor’s degrees in Russian language and literature from the University of Washington (1962) and Oxford University (1964), where he was a Rhodes Scholar. In 1970 he completed a D.Phil. in medieval Russian literature at Oxford with a dissertation on Maxim the Greek. Until his retirement he was professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he taught medieval Russian literature, Russian folklore, and the Russian language.