Lectures on Art. Scary Tales

Fairy tales are a barometer of European culture. By how they are told today, you can tell what state it is in. And even guess its future. Let’s try?

Fairy tales are our past. They don’t—and can’t—contain anything new, right? But we want novelty; we eagerly look toward the future. This audiobook by poet and writer Dmitry Makarov will persuade you otherwise. “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Cinderella,” “Puss in Boots,” and other great stories will appear in their development, touching the entire centuries-long history of our society. Here there is Eros and Thanatos, morality and immorality, law and lawlessness, the majority and the minority. But you’d better sit down for a moment—fairy tales don’t like fuss.