Волшебная страна и ее окрестности

Puteshestvuya po beskrayney vselennoy lyteratury Volshebnoy strany, my pokhozhy na zazerkalnykh Korolya y Korolevu, chey obytaemyy myr umeshchaetsya v komnate u malenkoy devochky Alysy Lyddell. On ogromnyy y kroshechnyy odnovremenno. Kak y myry «Khronyk Narnyy», «Garry Pottera», «Vetra v yvakh», «VynnyPukha», «Pytera Pena», «Vlastelyna kolets» — v nykh vse my byvaly v detstve y yunosty. Knyga Nykolaya Epple «Volshebnaya strana y ee okrestnosty» — sposob vernutsya v etu vselennuyu vzroslymy. Uvydet ee ustroystvo, ponyat davno y khorosho yzvestnoe, otkryt dlya sebya mnogo novogo. A eshche podobrat klyuchy dlya sleduyushchykh ee gostey — uzhe nashykh detey. Lyteratura Volshebnoy strany — napravlenye, uskolzayushchee ot strogykh zhanrovykh opredelenyy. Fylolog, perevodchyk, spetsyalyst po anglyyskoy lyterature Nykolay Epple rasskazyvaet o ney kak ob ystoryy yntensyvnogo vnutrennego dyaloga ochen raznykh avtorov, no prynadlezhashchykh edynoy, yasno proslezhyvaemoy tradytsyy. Roulyng, prydumyvaya platformu 9 y 3/4, derzhala v golove Platyanoy shkaf yz «Narnyy» Lyuysa. Pratchett byl fanatom Tolkyna. Sylneyshym teatralnym vpechatlenyem samogo Tolkyna byla postanovka «Pytera Pena» Barry — on zhe drug y nastavnyk Mylna… Yz etykh tonkykh vzaymosvyazey rozhdalas lyteratura voobrazhenyya, vtorychnoy realnosty, vostrebovannaya v trudnye vremena. «Kogda oryentyry poteryany, chernoe stanovytsya belym, a beloe chernym, Volshebnaya strana, v kotoroy, kak govoryt Makdonald, proyzvolno vse, krome nravstvennogo zakona, — sredstvo ne sbezhat ot realnosty, a napomnyt o ney sebe y blyzhnym», — Nykolay Epple. Pereyzdanye ukrasheno fotografyyamy anglyyskykh pysateley, yllyustratsyyamy k ykh proyzvedenyyam, reproduktsyyamy grafyky y zhyvopysy, rukopysey y oblozhek pervykh yzdanyy.

Traveling through the boundless universe of the literature of a Magical land, we look like a looking-glass King and Queen, whose inhabited world fits in the room of a little girl Alice Liddell. It's huge and tiny at the same time. As well as the worlds of "The Chronicles of Narnia", "Harry Potter", "The Wind in the Willows", "Winnipeg", "Peter Pan", "The Lord of the Rings" — we all visited them in childhood and adolescence. Nikolai Epple's book "Fairyland and its Surroundings" is a way to return to this universe as adults. To see her device, to understand what has been well-known for a long time, to discover a lot of new things. And also to pick up the keys for her next guests — our children already. Fairyland literature is a field that escapes strict genre definitions. Philologist, translator, and specialist in English literature Nikolai Epple talks about it as a story of intense internal dialogue between very different authors, but belonging to a single, clearly traceable tradition. When Rowling came up with platform 9 and 3/4, she had a Wardrobe from Lewis' Narnia in her head. Pratchett was a Tolkien fan. Tolkien's strongest theatrical impression was the production of Peter Pan by Barry, who is also Milne's friend and mentor.… From these subtle interrelations, the literature of imagination, secondary reality, was born, which was in demand in difficult times. "When landmarks are lost, black becomes white and white becomes black, a magical land in which, as MacDonald says, everything is arbitrary except the moral law, a means not to escape from reality, but to remind oneself and others of it," Nikolai Epple. The reissue is decorated with photographs of English writers, illustrations to their works, reproductions of graphics and paintings, manuscripts and covers of the first editions.