Tales of Wonder

A collection of short, self-contained fantasies and fables that blend mythic imagery, whimsical satire, and elegiac moods. A prefatory meditation links dreaming to survival during wartime, and individual pieces move among exotic visions of city life, baroque fairy tales, hunts, sea stories, odd moral parables, and grotesque jokes. Prose favors ornate, precise diction and compact tableaux that often shift abruptly from wonder to melancholy or irony. Recurring concerns include the tension between imagination and the prosaic world, the persistence of mythic longing, and encounters with uncanny or comic forces that overturn everyday expectation.