The Elephant in the Full Sense of the Word

Life is full of little wonderful events that often, unfortunately, go unnoticed in the hustle and bustle of everyday life. But for those who do not rush and can look at the objects around us attentively — truly attentively, like storytellers do! — an amazing world opens up. In this world, paper boats sail to distant countries — to palm trees, tigers, and peacocks. And the scales show that love always weighs much more than hate, and worries weigh less than joy. And everyone has a soul — both the big objects and the small ones.

Evgeny Klyuev is one of the brightest authors writing in Russian today, a poet, a philologist, a laureate of prestigious literary awards, a knight of the Order of the Honorary Dodo, a recognized expert in the literature of the absurd, and the author of the new — and closest to the original text of Lewis Carroll — translation of “Alice in Wonderland.” His fairy tales are included in school programs, they are performed on large and small stages in different countries, in different languages.

“The Elephant in the Full Sense of the Word” is the second volume of the funny and sad, kind and poetic “Fairy Tales of Evgeny Klyuev” — published by “Samokat” with illustrations by Svetlana Mullari.