How the Rope Twisted

A child's perspective can bring any object to life, even the most insignificant weed. A true storyteller knows how to pick up this lively little weed and arrange a virtuoso performance: whether with a piece of Pencil, a Sip of Juice, or even with a simple Rope. Yevgeny Klyuev is one of the brightest authors writing in Russian today, a poet, philologist, laureate of prestigious literary awards, knight of the Order of the Honorable Dodo, a recognized expert in absurd literature, and the author of a new — and closest to the original text of Lewis Carroll — translation of "Alice in Wonderland." His fairy tales are included in the school curriculum, they are performed on large and small stages in different countries, in different languages. "How the Rope Twisted" is the third volume of the funny and sad, kind and poetic "Fairy Tales of Yevgeny Klyuev" — published by "Samokat" with illustrations by Anna Zh Urko.