Dance of the Happy Shades

Dance of the Blessed Spirits. Fifteen Tales ( in the original Dance of the Happy Shades, 1968) is Alice Munro's first collection of short stories. Thematically, it is about growing up in adverse conditions.

Enthusiastically received by the critics, the band in 1968 with the highest Canadian literary prize, the Governor General's Award for Fiction Award, was. In a German translation by Heidi Zerning the collection first appeared in 2010 at Dörlemann Verlag in Zurich and has a circumference of 378 pages with illustrations. The second edition in 2013 was transferred under license by S. Fischer in Frankfurt am Main.

The fifteen short stories in the volume play in the 1930s to the 1950s. It is told mainly from the perspective of girls and young women who are realists and can observe sharp. Too simple truths turn out to be cruel contradictions that make the universe seem puzzling and full of fragile realities. The stories play in everyday life mainly provincial and economic tightness, but if life has suddenly changed again lead to freedom.

In the first story, " Walker Brothers Cowboy" parts of the story are not told Judith Maclean Miller writes in her analysis ( 2002). There were here and there, thoughtful silence, which seem to be significant breaks. In this concealment hints subject of infidelity, or at least dissatisfaction. The story thematizing, is the way in which something is raised.

Included works

  • The Walker Brothers Cowboy (Walker Brothers Cowboy ), p.7
  • The shining houses ( The Shining Houses ), p 37
  • Photos ( Images), p 57
  • Thanks for the sleigh ride ( Thanks for the Ride), p 81
  • The Office ( The Office), p 105
  • A glass of Medicine (An Ounce of Cure ), p 131
  • The time of death ( The Time of Death ), p 155
  • Day of the butterfly ( Day of the Butterfly ), p 173
  • Boys and girls (Boys and Girls ), p 191
  • Postcard ( Postcard), p 221
  • Red Dress - 1946 ( Red Dress - 1946), p 253
  • Sunday afternoon ( Sunday Afternoon), p 277
  • A trip to the coast (A Trip to the Coast ), p 295
  • The Peace of Utrecht (The Peace of Utrecht), p 323
  • Dance of the Blessed Spirits ( Dance of the Happy Shades ), p 359
Lives of Girls and Women Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You Runaway (book) Dear Life The Moons of Jupiter (short story) The Progress of Love
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