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Just So Stories de Rudyard Kipling

Just So Stories

Autor Rudyard Kipling
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 mai 2011

Pășim într-un univers al curiozității pure, unde explicațiile științifice lasă loc magiei și umorului blând. Just So Stories nu este doar o culegere de basme, ci o invitație la a vedea lumea prin ochii unui copil pentru care fiecare detaliu al naturii — cocoșa cămilei, petele leopardului sau trompa elefantului — ascunde o aventură fantastică. Atmosfera este una de intimitate caldă, reflectând originea acestor texte ca povești de noapte bună spuse de Rudyard Kipling fiicei sale. Găsim aici o limbă engleză jucăușă, plină de onomatopee și repetiții ritmice, care transformă lectura cu voce tare într-o experiență aproape muzicală. Observăm cum autorul își folosește experiența din India și pasiunea pentru folclorul universal pentru a crea mituri moderne. Dacă în The Jungle Book natura era adesea aspră și guvernată de „Legea Junglei”, în Just So Stories ea devine un teren de joacă ingenios. Cititorul care a apreciat explorarea identității și a peisajului exotic din Kim va găsi aici aceeași fascinație pentru diversitatea lumii, dar transpusă într-un registru ludic și accesibil. Structura volumului urmărește o progresie de la transformări fizice ale animalelor către invenții umane fundamentale, precum scrisul și alfabetul, oferind o cosmogonie miniaturală pentru cei mici. Este o operă care confirmă geniul narativ al lui Rudyard Kipling, capabil să transforme întrebările simple în literatură perenă.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141442402
ISBN-10: 0141442409
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 131 x 201 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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Recomandăm această ediție din colecția Collins Classics oricărui părinte care dorește să cultive imaginația copiilor prin texte clasice, dar și adulților care apreciază rafinamentul stilistic al unui laureat Nobel. Cititorul câștigă o poartă spre o epocă în care poveștile explicau lumea cu umor și blândețe, fiind lectura ideală pentru momentele de liniște de dinaintea somnului.

Despre autor

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) a fost un poet, nuvelist și romancier britanic, născut în Bombay, India. Această moștenire culturală duală i-a marcat profund opera, oferindu-i o perspectivă unică asupra interacțiunii dintre Orient și Occident. Recunoscut ca unul dintre cei mai mari inovatori ai nuvelei, el a devenit, în 1907, cel mai tânăr laureat al Premiului Nobel pentru Literatură. Deși opera sa a stârnit controverse politice de-a lungul timpului, geniul său narativ și capacitatea de a crea universuri memorabile pentru copii, precum cel din The Jungle Book, îi asigură un loc permanent în canonul literaturii universale.

Notă biografică

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was born in Bombay. During his time at the United Services College, he began to write poetry, privately publishing Schoolboy Lyrics in 1881. The following year he started work as a journalist in India, and while there produced a body of work, stories, sketches, and poems —including “Mandalay,” “Gunga Din,” and “Danny Deever”—which made him an instant literary celebrity when he returned to England in 1889. While living in Vermont with his wife, an American, Kipling wrote The Jungle Books, Just So Stories, and Kim—which became widely regarded as his greatest long work, putting him high among the chronicles of British expansion. Kipling returned to England in 1902, but he continued to travel widely and write, though he never enjoyed the literary esteem of his early years. In 1907, he became the first British writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize.

Jan Montefiore (editor) is a professor of twentieth-century English literature at the University of Kent. She is the author of Men and Women Writers of the 1930s (1996); Arguments of Heart and Mind: Selected Essays 1977-2000 (2002); Feminism and Poetry (3rd edition, 2004); and Rudyard Kipling (2007). 

Judith Plotz (introducer) teaches at George Washington University. Her most recent book is Romanticism and the Vocation of Childhood (2001).

Descriere scurtă

A relentlessly inventive collection of myths that betray a deep love and respect for the natural world, the Penguin Classics edition of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories is edited with an introduction by Judith Plotz and a general preface by series editor Jan Montefiore.

In these bewitching stories we learn 'How the Camel got his Hump', ' How the Leopard got his Spots' and 'How the Whale got his Throat', as Rudyard Kipling conjures up distant lands, beautiful gardens of splendid palaces, the sea, the deserts, the jungle and all its creatures. Inspired by Kipling's delight in human eccentricities and the animal world, and based on bedtime stories he told to his daughter, these strikingly imaginative fables explore the myths of creation, the nature of beasts and the origins of language and writing. They are linked by poems and scattered with Kipling's illustrations, which contain hidden jokes, symbols and puzzles. Among Kipling's most loved works, the Just So Stories have been continually in print since 1902.

Part of a series of new editions of Kipling's works in Penguin Classics, this volume contains a General Preface by Jan Montefiore and an introduction by Judith Plotz exploring the origins of the stories in Kipling's own life and in folklore, their place in classic children's literature and their extraordinary language.

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born in Bombay. In 1882 he started work as a journalist in India, and while there produced a body of work, stories, sketches and poems - notably Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) - which made him an instant literary celebrity when he returned to England in 1889. His most famous works include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901) and the Just So Stories (1902). Kipling refused to accept the role of Poet Laureate and other civil honours, but he was the first English writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize, in 1907.

If you enjoyed Just So Stories, you might like Selected Tales by the Brothers Grimm, also available in Penguin Classics.

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Originally told by Rudyard Kipling to his children at bedtime, this compendium of witty tales imagines how animals came to be as they are now. Discover how the massive whale got a tiny throat by swallowing a mariner, how the lazy camel got a hump so that he had no excuse not to work, and why the leopard's spots were painted on.
Kipling's imagination runs wild as he creates charming origin stories that still enchant and delight children to this day. This edition features Kipling's iconic original illustrations.

Recenzii

Kipling has an Aesopian understanding of animals, of our dealings with them and our curious interrelatedness, interdependence, how we can learn about our own strange behaviour.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

How did the camel get his hump? Why won't cats do as they are told? Who invented reading and writing? How did an inquisitive little elephant change the lives of elephants everywhere? Kipling's imagined answers to such questions draw on the beast fables he heard as a child in India, as well as on folk games with language, exploring the relationships between thought, speech, and the written word. He also celebrates his own joy in fatherhood. The tales were told to his own and his friends' children over many years before he wrote them down, adding poems and his own illustrations. They invite older and younger readers to share a magical experience, each contributing to the other's pleasure, but each can also enjoy them alone, as more jokes, subtexts, and exotic references emerge with every reading. This fully illustrated edition includes two extra stories and Kipling's own explanation of the title.

Cuprins

How the Whale Got His Throat
How the Camel Got His Hump
How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin
How the Leopard Got His Spots
The Elephant's Child/How the Elephant got his Trunk
The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo
The Beginning of the Armadillos
How the First Letter Was Written
How the Alphabet Was Made
The Crab That Played with the Sea
The Cat That Walked by Himself
The Butterfly That Stamped