The Tragic Menagerie

ISBN-13: 9780810114838 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 185 str.

Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal; L. D. Zinov'eva-Annibal; Jane Costlow

Opis

Though published a decade before the Bolshevik Revolution, "The Tragic Menagerie" possesses a sensibility that is modern in its descriptions of a childhood of passionate affections and unsettling revelations. This fictionalized autobiography follows the tomboyish Vera, who counts among her friends bears, wolves, and a wild crane, as well as local peasant girls. Sent to a German boarding school and exiled from her kingdom, Vera turns into a demonic, disobedient student, rejecting a life she finds constraining and artificial. Only when she returns to her natural world can her deeper compassionate and imaginative self emerge.