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The Tragic Menagerie
Though published a decade before the Bolshevik Revolution, The Tragic Menagerie possesses a sensibility that is modern in its descriptions of a childhood of passionate affections and unsettling revelations. This fictionalized autobiography follows the tomboyish Vera, who counts among her friends bears, wolves, and a wild crane, as well as local peasant girls. Sent to a German boarding school and exiled from her kingdom, Vera turns into a demonic, disobedient student, rejecting a life she finds constraining and artificial. Only when she returns to her natural world can her deeper compassionate and imaginative self emerge.
Book Details
- Publisher: Northwestern University Press
- Publish Date: Mar 17th, 1999
- Pages: 185
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.78in - 5.17in - 0.63in - 0.53lb
- EAN: 9780810114838
- Categories: • Classics• Literary
Praise for this book
"It ranks high among the classic depictions of childhood in world literature." --Slavic and East European Journal
"On the surface, this book is a period piece. . . . At a deeper level, the book is timeless. . . . [S]he can help us to understand the 'tragic menagerie' of the heart, the anarchic, insatiable needs felt by everyone, not only children." --Times Literary Supplement