Damascus-Sana
He did not know in the mind of the late writer Dr. Sami Al-Droubi when he translated the novel, The Blind Lover of Ukrainian Vladimir Korolenko in the early 1960s, that Arab translators would refrain from transmitting the rest of Kurlenko's productions to counter-talkers until another Syrian translator presented sixty years after transmitting another bunch of his works through a group titled “ Three stories.
This collection, which was issued by the Syrian General Authority for Book and translated by Tariq Maasrani, was not collected by Korolenko in one book, rather it was published separately.
In the story "Children of the Mirage", which is sometimes translated as "Underground Children", Korolenko narrates through the lips of the 6-year-old Fasya, the suffering of his sister, Sonia, following the death of their mother and the severe grief of their father for her. Life circumstances beggary and theft so they stay alive.
The story "In the Night" recovers those spontaneous questions that young people often ask about the way children are born through a childish dialogue filled with the imagination of young children and their dreams between four siblings, two boys and two girls, which will eventually be cut off by their nanny who punishes them and makes them go to sleep.
In the third story “The Dream of Macar”, which is Korolenko’s most famous work after the blind lover, we read about a poor little peasant who wants to dream of a better future away from the feudal lord’s persecution and oppression, but he does not have time to dream. Hard physical labor consumes his days, but on Christmas Eve and after he sleeps exhausted he dreams That the forest god Taeyeon wanted to punish him cruelly and turn him into a horse, but Makar eventually managed to convince Taeyeon of his righteousness.
The collection is located in 231 pages of medium cut and its author Vladimir Korolenko lived between 1853 and 1921 and worked as a journalist and writer. As for the group's translator, Tariq Maasrani, he published a number of translated books in the field of history and literature, including the stars of the steppe "Stories of the book of Soviet Kazakhstan, ethnos and history."