Multilingual Short Works Collection 023 - Poetry & Prose

A miniature world tour through three languages and three centuries of literary magic. This collection gathers a fragment of Arabic verse by the medieval scholar Muhammad ibn Idrīs al-Shāfiʻī, who meditates on fate and patience with the quiet wisdom of a centuries-old prayer. Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep' unfolds like a porcelain figurine coming to life, a Danish fairy tale about love between two ceramic figures that aches with tender impossibility. And Guy de Maupassant, at the height of his powers, traps a man on a river in 'Sur l'eau' with nothing but a boat and a mounting dread that builds like the current itself. Each piece is a self-contained universe, a single sitting's worth of immersion into another tongue, another sensibility. For listeners and readers who believe that literature should feel like travel, that a short work can haunt longer than a novel, this collection offers three passports into very different souls.