The characters of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya – princesses, piglets, wizards, giants, hares, and even cabbage and a steam locomotive with a shovel – are far from the conventional image of heroes from folk or author’s tales. Among them are wealthy and...
poor, hard workers and lazy people, some are capricious and do not obey their elders, while others are caring and positive. But all of them are provocatively original, think and act unconventionally, and incredible events or transformations always happen to each of them. Nevertheless, in the end, as is customary in fairy tales, good always triumphs over evil, greed, and deceit.
The characters of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya – princesses, piglets, wizards, giants, hares, and even cabbage and a steam locomotive with a shovel – are far from the conventional image of heroes from folk or author’s tales. Among them are wealthy and poor, hard workers and lazy people, some are capricious and do not obey their elders, while others are caring and positive. But all of them are provocatively original, think and act unconventionally, and incredible events or transformations always happen to each of them. Nevertheless, in the end, as is customary in fairy tales, good always triumphs over evil, greed, and deceit.