Oscar Wilde

Kenneth Brodey

FAIRY TALE & FANTASY A story of love and friendship about a fisherman who catches a mermaid. He lets her go because she promises to help him fish. Each day the mermaid appears and sings her song, so he falls in love with her. However, she cannot marry him until he has lost his human soul. Dossiers: Children’s Literature Aestheticism

B1.1-niveau ERK

The Fisherman and his Soul

Анастасия Розова

*Read for class.

We've been reading this little novella for several weeks in our Translation class. So I've read it with my groupmates.
It was nice, not too moralizing. Plus Wild's writing style is beautiful and very descriptive. I enjoyed it.

With the ingenuity and delicacy of the little mermaid, this beautiful story transports us to unreal and fantastic scenes. It happened that a young fisherman caught a mermaid with his nets, which he allowed to return to the sea on the condition that, upon his call, he would sing a song so that the fish would go to their nets. She sang her songs every evening that talked about the colossal whales or the Argonauts or the octopuses that move their multiple black arms, and the fish flocked to the surface of the sea and filled the nets of the fisherman. But the mermaid's fascination was not only in the fish but also in the fisherman, who could not resist its charm.

The Fisherman and his Soul B1.1-niveau ERK

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