Quiet Fairy Tales
10 hrs. 59 min.
Description
Zinaida Mirkina’s fairy tales are written for both children and adults.
For thousands of years, people have been wondering: why is there so much evil in a world created by Love? And in the fairy tale this question is posed with all the seriousness of a child. If, as the White Rabbit’s violin says, “everything is good, everything is very, very good,” then why do the wolves torment their prey? This question troubled Zinaida Aleksandrovna even when she was still a little girl. And from fairy tale to fairy tale, an answer gradually grows: everything is good if the main thing in us is not ourselves, but something higher growing within us; if we fade away before this higher power, if it is dearer to us than happiness in the usual sense of the word—and even dearer than life itself, on a small patch of space and time. The theme of all the fairy tales is reaching the whole and the eternal…
For thousands of years, people have been wondering: why is there so much evil in a world created by Love? And in the fairy tale this question is posed with all the seriousness of a child. If, as the White Rabbit’s violin says, “everything is good, everything is very, very good,” then why do the wolves torment their prey? This question troubled Zinaida Aleksandrovna even when she was still a little girl. And from fairy tale to fairy tale, an answer gradually grows: everything is good if the main thing in us is not ourselves, but something higher growing within us; if we fade away before this higher power, if it is dearer to us than happiness in the usual sense of the word—and even dearer than life itself, on a small patch of space and time. The theme of all the fairy tales is reaching the whole and the eternal…
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01belyjj-zajac
54:30
02volshebnaja-shhelochka
36:00
03kto-zazhigaet-zvezdy
46:04
04skazka-o-konce-i-nachale-sveta
41:32
05ogonjok-v-izbushke
21:34
06grustnyjj-gnom
26:01
07put-k-domu
31:34
08ehto-tajjna
49:24
09ol-om-ehl
39:29
10skazka-o-chude
21:17
11skazka-o-lade
36:45
12zerkalo-v-zerkale
25:37
13zerno-vechnosti
43:15
14snezhnaja-koroleva
20:26
15feja-pereli
20:14
16legkonozhka
14:41
17malchik-derevo-i-flejjtist
14:12
18skazka-o-careviche-sutasome
15:11
19angel
12:27
20bog-posetil
29:38
21volshebnyjj-son
17:15
22u-samogo-morja-u-samogo-boga
24:00
23staraja-feja
