Oriental tales
By: Marguerite Yourcenar ; translated from the French by Alberto Manguel, in collaboration with the author.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Published: 1985
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 147
Subjects: Orient -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Description: Oriental Tales (French: Nouvelles orientales) is a 1938 short story collection by the French writer Marguerite Yourcenar. The stories share a self-consciously mythological form; some are based on pre-existing myths and legends, while some are new. The story "How Wang-Fo Was Saved" was adapted into an animated short film by René Laloux in the 1980s." -- www.wikipedia.com.
Notes: Translation of: Nouvelles orientales.
Table of contents: title: How Wang-Fo was saved; title: Marko's smile; title: The milk of death; title: The last love of Prince Genji; title: The man who loved the Nereids; title: Our Lady-of-the-Swallows; title: Aphrodissia, the widow; title: Kali beheaded; title: The end of Marko Kraljevic; title: The sadness of Cornelius Berg; title: Postscript.