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Just So Stories

Autor Rudyard Kipling Shashi Deshpande
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 feb 2010 – vârsta de la 18 ani

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: 9780451531506
ISBN-10: 0451531507
Pagini: 156
Dimensiuni: 104 x 168 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.09 kg
Editura: Signet Classics

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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, the son of an Anglo-Indian Professor of Architectural Sculpture. There he was brought up in the care of “ayahs,” or native nurses, who taught him Hindustani and the native lore that always haunted his imagination and can be seen clearly reflected in Just So Stories. At the age of six, he was sent to school in England at Westward Ho!, the scene of Stalky & Co. In 1883, he returned to India and embarked on a career in journalism, writing the news stories as well as the tales and ballads that began to make his reputation. After seven years, he went back to England, the literary “Star of the Hour.” He married an American and stayed in Vermont from 1892 to 1894. Then he settled down in the English countryside, where he remained, except for a few trips abroad, for the rest of his life. The author of innumerable stories and poems, Rudyard Kipling is especially known for Soldiers Three (1888), The Light That Failed (1890), The Jungle Books (1894-95), Captains Courageous (1897), Stalky & Co. (1899), Kim (1901), and Just So Stories (1902). Among many other honors, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Boston, Avi is the author of more than fifty books for children and young adults beginning with Things That Sometimes Happen (1970). Among his numerous awards are the Newbery Award and two Newbery Honors, two Horn Book awards, the O’Dell Historical Fiction Award, and a Christopher Award.

Shashi Deshpande is the author of nine novels, most notably The Dark Holds No Terrors, That Long Silence, A Matter of Time, Small Remedies, and In the Country of Deceit, which was shortlisted for the Regional Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. She also has four books for children, a collection of essays, several volumes of short stories, as well as translations from two Indian languages into English to her credit. Her own novels and short stories have been translated into many Indian and European languages. She lives in Bangalore, India.

Descriere

Drawn from the wondrous tales told to Kipling as a child by his Indian nurses, "Just So Stories" creates the magical enchantment of the dawn of the world, when animals could talk and think like people. Features an Introduction by Newbery Medalist Avi. Revised reissue.

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