The cursed bunny5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() The opening tale is titled “The Head” - an example of translator Anton Hur’s dexterity - a double entendre for the toilet and the “thing that looked vaguely like a head” that pops out of it, calling the female main character “mother.” At first, she manages to flush it away. In the first two stories, women inadvertently create life and must suffer the consequences. Adding to the archetypal aura, the characters are nameless, designated with titles like “the man,” “the youth,” and “the daughter.” The family is a microcosm of a culture, and in many of the stories, home is a scene of horror populated by spirits, monsters (both human and not), and other entities that hover on the border of the living and the spectral. debut, the short-story collection Cursed Bunny, presents vivid, bizarre, and often gruesome fractured fairytales that reflect a broken society. Fairytales come from the preliterate traditions of our forebears, repeated around the tribal hearth for generations, exposing the deepest fears, fissures, and moral convictions of a culture. ![]()
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