Bear fly

"Bear fly" - this is a funny old Jewish saying, which means it - fantastic story, something unheard of improbable, in a word, you know, "the bear fly."

It is so named his first book of fairy tales, which appeared in 1924, a young Jewish writer Itsik Kipnis. Tales Kipnis - a wonderful monument to the era. They writer demonstrates a keen interest in the two sources feeding the Jewish avant-garde, as ill the Divine, and literary. This is, firstly, a naive Literature and Folklore (the total interest of European and Russian avant-garde) and, secondly, the children's creativity (specific discovery Jewish avant-garde). Kipnis recreates in his tales, children's narrative structure, with its seeming illogic, mixing today and fantastic, and often dark, scary color.

Written in the mid-1920s, these tales, folklore and amazing fusion of avant-garde, somewhat reminiscent of children's works of contemporary Kipnis - Daniil Kharms. They are equally interested in both adults and children. Most of the tales was first translated into Russian.