The sensual and beautiful classic long poem which has inspired Alice in The Wonderland, tells the story of two sisters, Laura and Lizzie, tempted by diabolical goblin merchants selling amazing fruits. Like Alice In Wonderland, Goblin Market is a surrealist masterpiece about magic, diabolical goblins portrayed as beastly devils, forbidden fruits and guilty pleasure. Throughout the poem set up in a small farm of the British countryside, a phantasmagorical secret hangs in the air like an allegory for something from the realm of human intimacy, something in conflict with guilty pleasures and forbidden biblical food. In this illustrated bilingual edition, Eva Vasileva, illustrator and Alix Daniel, translator breath a new life to this genial and exquisite poem which remains together Christian and sensual.
Christina Rossetti was born in 1830. She was considered as one of the greatest poet of her time the equal of Tennyson nothing less. She was admired by Carol Lewis the author of Alice In Wonderland and was a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with her brother the painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. She wrote and published many poems in both English and Italian and edited articles for The Germ a Pre-Raphaelite literary periodical with the inspiring subtitle Thoughts towards nature in art an literature.Alix Daniel was born in 1965 and is a medical doctor writer and translator. She has written Hippocrates of London and 84-19 Rhapsodies & Co from I with the pen name Docteur Cybirdy. She has translated La Bouillie de la Comtesse Berthe from French to English. Goblin Market/Marche Des Gobelins is her first translation from English to French.