Magical Land and its surroundings
39.99 €
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Magical Land and its surroundings
39.99 €
Traveling through the vast universe of Magical Land literature, we resemble the looking-glass King and Queen, whose inhabited world fits into the room of a little girl named Alice Liddell. It is both vast and tiny. Like the worlds of The Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter, The Wind in the Willows, Winnie-the-Pooh, Peter Pan, and The Lord of the Rings—we all visited them in childhood and adolescence.
Nikolai Epple's book, "Magic Land and Its Environs," is a way to return to this universe as adults. To see its structure, to understand what has long been familiar, to discover many new things. And also to find the keys for its next guests—our children. Magical Land literature is a movement that eludes strict genre definitions.
From these subtle interconnections, a literature of the imagination, a secondary reality, was born, in demand in difficult times. "When reference points are lost, black becomes white, and white becomes black. A fairyland, where, as MacDonald says, everything except the moral law is arbitrary, is a means not to escape reality but to remind oneself and one's neighbors of it," says Nikolai Epple. The reprint is adorned with photographs of English writers, illustrations to their works, reproductions of graphic art and paintings, manuscripts, and first edition covers.
Nikolai Epple's book, "Magic Land and Its Environs," is a way to return to this universe as adults. To see its structure, to understand what has long been familiar, to discover many new things. And also to find the keys for its next guests—our children. Magical Land literature is a movement that eludes strict genre definitions.
From these subtle interconnections, a literature of the imagination, a secondary reality, was born, in demand in difficult times. "When reference points are lost, black becomes white, and white becomes black. A fairyland, where, as MacDonald says, everything except the moral law is arbitrary, is a means not to escape reality but to remind oneself and one's neighbors of it," says Nikolai Epple. The reprint is adorned with photographs of English writers, illustrations to their works, reproductions of graphic art and paintings, manuscripts, and first edition covers.
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