Легенда об Уленшпигеле

Ulenspiegel - "Your Mirror" - the hero of the Flemish folk tales, a classic trickster, brother of his own Petrushka, Khoja Nasreddin, Hermes, Aldar-Kose, Loki and Medzhekivis. However, before you is not a collection of folk tales. Charles de Coster, having given Ulenspiegel a baptized name (Til), mother and father (honest and hardworking Soetkin and Klaas), homeland - thus gave him responsibility, and the bitterness of loss, and the fury of the oppressed. And here is the fantasy! - a bazaar crook becomes a seeker of truth, and a dissolute vagabond becomes a defender of his native land. Historical facts are mixed with bizarre scenes of the appearance of spirits, and even the grave will not hold the prankster Ulenspiegel...

Illustrations by E. Kibrik