Vevi

work by Lillegg

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place in children’s literature

  • Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking-Glass
    In children’s literature: War and beyond

    In realistic fantasy there is Vevi (1955), by the Austrian Erica Lillegg, an extraordinary tale of split personality, odd, exciting, even profound. Michael Ende’s Jim Knopf und Lucas der Lokomotivführer (1961; Eng. trans., Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver, 1963) has more than a touch of Oz; and both…

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