Book Review Of The Cloak of Dreams -Béla Balázs
Fairy tales is a collection of literacy fairy tales written by the Hungarian author, film critic, filmmaker, and political activist Béla Balázs in the early 20th century.he is best known for his fairy-tale-inspired collaborations with Béla Bartók, including the opera Bluebeard’s Castle (1911) and the ballet The Wooden Prince (1916), and a text written in his later years, Theory of the Film Character and Growth of a New Art (1949).
A man changes into a flea and in order to become human again he need to bring his future parents together. A woman convinces a river god for curing her sick son, but the remedy has many outcomes. In order to survive, the young man needs to choose whether to be close to his wife’s soul or body. And two deaf-mutes transform their physical existence in the garden of dreams.
The cloak of dream written in 1921,these fairy tales were originally published with twenty images drawn by mariette lydis,a chinese style by painter. The lydis’s splendid illustrations are present in the new edition.Together, the tales and pictures emphasize the motifs and themes that run throughout Balázs’s work: wandering protagonists, mysterious woods and mountains, solitude, and magical transmutation. His fairy tales express our desires and the hope that, even during misfortune, we can transform our difficulties and shape our destinies. Unusual, fascinating fairy tales that explore the world's evils and twists of fortune, The Cloak of Dreams will entertain and astonish.
The forces at work in Nai-Fe’s psyche shape the story’s results and explain the relationship between the emperor and his wife. It is a story about the erotic tug and pulls of uncontrollable debut ungraspable desire. Nai-Fe had a soul just like a dreaming soul because she had died too early in her former life. This is why her gaze always wandered far away beyond her husband. Nai-Fe reproached herself bitterly, but she could not do anyhing about it. In a dream, she saw her husband wearing a cloak on which all the pictures of her dreams had been decorated.When she wakes she tells her husband he must wear this cloak which she will decorate for him, to in blend her dreams with her husband’s ubiquity. Then for the next five years she embroiders the cloak to blend the desire of her soul with the desire of her heart. But as she thought it does not work out. Now visible to her, The entire spacious dreamland rested between her and the emperor, and she couldn’t come to him. The emperor has two choices “If you take off the cloak, you can hold me in your arms, but my soul will be far away from you. If you wear the cloak, I will not be able to propose you. But the longing of my soul will eternally cast its glances upon you. So the emperor chooses to wear the cloak.
Reviewer, 47 Sarwat Syed
Bibliography
https://books.google.co.in/books/about/The_Cloak_of_Dreams.html?id=l0QOnwEACAAJ&redir_esc=y (Cover Image)
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/inflibnet-ebooks/reader.action?docID=557125 (Reading Website)
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