Alexander Grin – författare

Wie eine fremdartige Blume wächst das Mädchen Assol an einer rauen Meeresküste unter Fischern auf. Eines Tages verkündet ihr ein wandernder Märchenerzähler: »Ein weißes Schiff unter riesigen, leuchtenden Purpursegeln wird die Wellen durchschneiden und geradewegs auf dich zukommen.« An Bord sei ein Prinz, der sie durch seine große Liebe aus ihrem bescheidenen Leben erlöse. Seitdem wartet sie auf dieses Ereignis, lässt sich dafür klaglos verspotten und weiß nicht, dass in einem verwilderten Schloss der Junge Grey von Meer und Seefahrt träumt. Er wird Kapitän auf einem eigenen Schiff und erfährt eines Tages Assols Geschichte. Seit ihrem Erscheinen 1923 hat diese Geschichte Generationen von Leserinnen und Lesern verzaubert.

In a bucolic idyll, a terrorist agonizes over the act of violence he is about to commit. On a remote island in the South Pacific, the investigation of a case of mass suicide reveals further mysteries. In a far-flung colony, a cynical trio sends an unwitting man into the wilderness in search of a chimera. Mixing romance and high adventure, intrigue and the fantastic, these magnificent tales by one of Russia’s most enduringly popular writers deftly probe the depths of human nature and desire.Fandango and Other Stories presents a selection of essential short fiction by Alexander Grin, Russia’s counterpart to Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Alexandre Dumas. By turns a sailor, a dockworker, a vagrant, a gold prospector, a lumberjack, a soldier, a deserter, an agitator, an exile, a prisoner, and a runaway, Grin wrote seven novels and over three hundred short stories that transport the reader to a realm of pure art and imagination. His ingenious plots explore conflicts of the individual and society in a romantic world populated by a cast of eccentric, cosmopolitan characters. Fandango and Other Stories includes works drawn from across the entirety of Grin’s varied career to encompass the range and sophistication of his writing. Bryan Karetnyk’s elegant translations bring Grin’s distinctive voice to a new generation of readers.

In a bucolic idyll, a terrorist agonizes over the act of violence he is about to commit. On a remote island in the South Pacific, the investigation of a case of mass suicide reveals further mysteries. In a far-flung colony, a cynical trio sends an unwitting man into the wilderness in search of a chimera. Mixing romance and high adventure, intrigue and the fantastic, these magnificent tales by one of Russia’s most enduringly popular writers deftly probe the depths of human nature and desire.Fandango and Other Stories presents a selection of essential short fiction by Alexander Grin, Russia’s counterpart to Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Alexandre Dumas. By turns a sailor, a dockworker, a vagrant, a gold prospector, a lumberjack, a soldier, a deserter, an agitator, an exile, a prisoner, and a runaway, Grin wrote seven novels and over three hundred short stories that transport the reader to a realm of pure art and imagination. His ingenious plots explore conflicts of the individual and society in a romantic world populated by a cast of eccentric, cosmopolitan characters. Fandango and Other Stories includes works drawn from across the entirety of Grin’s varied career to encompass the range and sophistication of his writing. Bryan Karetnyk’s elegant translations bring Grin’s distinctive voice to a new generation of readers.

Everyone knows the effect of dealing with texts of the past as with venerable old people: here we love them, here we respect them, and there and there we tactfully turn a blind eye, because everyone understands everything. In Greenland - Green''s fictional country - from any point of view one should not turn a blind eye to anything. It does not become obsolete, but only becomes closer and more modern. Greenland is a territory of freedom that has stood the test of time and all its reactants. It is not without reason that its business card is one of the main symbols of freedom in world culture: the sea. And it is not without reason that in "The Shining World" it is combined with another major symbol of freedom - flight."The Shining World" by Alexander Grin - a program novel about freedom, published exactly one hundred years ago - in 1923, when freedom in Russia catastrophically disappeared. It is an acutely social text that is as relevant now as it was during the NEP, prodrazverstka and the formation of a new empire.