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Leánder és Lenszirom
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Leánder és Lenszirom

The fairy tale Oleander and Flax Blossom is widely referred to as the most beautiful Hungarian fairy tale written since Csongor and Tünde (1830). Andor Szilágyi was inspired by Elek Benedek’s Collection of fairy tales Wonder Tree, but his romantic tale also incorporates the motifs of many famous predecessors: Beauty and the Beast, Wild Swans, and Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.  more

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“I wanted to write a classical fairy tale that is instructive in every way. It has a hero we can relate to, an antagonist ’loathed by the public’, and a number of main and supporting characters showing human qualities that can be acquired and lost. The point is can we discover the story’s parallels with our own life, and that’s about more than the timeless fairy tale situation in which the good guy gets rewarded, and the bad guy is duly punished.... ”

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