by Edouard Brasey · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782857045922
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«Nains et gnomes» is Edouard Brasey's essay on the folklore of gnomes and dwarfs, published by Pygmalion in paperback (230 pages, in French).
In this essay, Edouard Brasey delves into the folklore of gnomes, dwarfs and elves and into the stories and legends that have shaped their image in popular tradition. He examines the role of these creatures in the fantastic imagination and offers a journey through their origins and the tales that surround them.
Published in 1999, it is volume 2 of the collection «L'univers féerique» and includes bibliographical references at the end (pages 225-228).
For fans of folklore and fantastic creatures.
Édouard Brasey is a French novelist, essayist, scriptwriter and story-teller born on 25 March 1954. Author of more than seventy works, many of which have been translated into English, Russian, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. He specialises in the themes of the esoteric, fables, legends and fantasy. He won a prize of Imaginales in 2006 for La Petite Encyclopédie du Merveilleux, and a prize Merlin in 2009 for his novel La Malédiction de l'Anneau. Subsequently, he has become essentially a novelist, notably published by Calmann-Lévy. His historical-esoteric thriller that was published in 2013, Le Dernier Pape, anticipated the abdication of Benoît XVI.
