Богатство и бедность глазами ребенка в новелле Марселя Эме «Сапоги-скороходы»

Abstract

The article focuses on the short story Les Bottes de sept lieues by the French writer Marcel Aymé. The paper seeks to demonstrate the correlation between the story’s main theme and the writer’s biography. Also, it analyzes the ways that the concepts of Fortune and Poverty are conveyed on the narrative and symbolical levels of the studied text. The appendix contains the translation of the story into the Russian language made by the author. It aims to better familiarize the readers with Marcel Aymé’s body of work.