The Enchanted Night: Selected Tales - Magical Story Collection for Bedtime Reading, Fantasy Lovers & Book Gifts | Perfect for Relaxation, Inspiration & Literary Escape
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Transporting stories of intrigue, superstition and rivalry from a European master, in English for the first timeIn this stark, haunting collection, Miklós Bánffy narrates with wry wisdom stories of cunning, betrayal and myth ranging from classical antiquity to the Transylvania of his own day. These are communities of sharp rivalries and religious superstition: young Borbálka, about to marry an unsuitable man, receives strange counsel from a suspicious figure in her village; four men seek to exploit the captive Gavrila Lung for money, while mountain wolves howl in the distance; when Old Damaskin betrays his stepson to hold on to his land, his wife extracts bizarre revenge.Translated into English for the first time by the award-winning Len Rix, this collection further establishes Bánffy as one of the foremost European writers of the twentieth century.
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A complementary book to author's larger masterpiece, The Transylvania trilogy.An aristocrat not fully understood and respected by the decaying dual world he lived in Transylvania, a world destroyed in equal parts by it's temporary owners : Hungary and Romania.The wolf story is more than it meets the eye.As background. Through time and history there's an ancient rivalry between Hungarian and Romanians, disputing feudal lands and rights to live in Transylvania. This rivalry brought to life heroic characters on one side and villains on the other. Depending who tells the story. In Romanian mountain folk as well as history, the characters of Horia, Closca and Crisan are well known. What is less known or acknowledged, is that they lived and fought on Banffy's lands. The author's ancestral family.In the wolf story, the author takes a step back in time, imagining and painting a classic folk tale. About the capture of a man in the mountains. Seen not trough the eyes of the landowner, not through the values of an Hungarian aristocrat, not even through a humble human eye. But a wolf.Humble yet magnificent story. Simple but complicated human landscape.Few other small stories defines this wonderful book.
