Монахи-волшебники

by Pu Songling, Пу Сунлин

Герои сборника рассказов Пу Сунлина "Монахи-волшебники", с одной стороны, обманщики и смешные люди; с другой – святители, знающие магические приемы и потому опасные, заслуживающие всяческого почитания. Эти монахи проницательны, они ведают тайны тех и этого миров, они чародеи и фокусники. Им ничего не стоит властно смешать действительность с химерой и, в конце концов наказав порок или глупость, поменять свой лик на чужой, воздвигнуть здания на пустыре или пройти сквозь стену.

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1740

About the author

Pu Songling (simplified Chinese: 蒲松龄; traditional Chinese: 蒲松齡; pinyin: Pú Sōnglíng; Wade–Giles: P'u Sung-ling, June 5, 1640—February 25, 1715) was a Qing Dynasty Chinese writer, best known as the author of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.

Pu was born into a poor landlord-merchant family from Zichuan (淄川, now Zibo, Shandong). At the age of nineteen, he received the gongsheng degree in the civil service examination, but it was not until he was seventy-one that he received the xiucai degree.

He spent most of his life working as a private tutor, and collecting the stories that were later published in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. Some critics attribute the Vernacular Chinese novel Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan to him.