Abstract
name of Evgenii L'vovich Shvarts (1896-1958) is known to millions of readers and theater goers in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Year after year children delight in reading his stories such as The New Adventures of Puss in Boots (1937) or seeing his plays such as Snow Queen (1938) and Little Red Riding Hood (1937). Adult connoisseurs of drama consider Naked King (1934), Shadow (1940), Dragon (1942), and An Ordinary Miracle (1954) to be among the finest examples of theatrical art. Immensely popular with young and old alike are films based on Shvarts' scenarios, such as Cinderella (1949) and Don Quixote (1957). general qualities frequently associated with Shvarts as a writer are imaginativeness and originality.l Such evaluations are specially noteworthy because at least half of Shvarts' works are not his original inventions but adaptations of fairytales by other authors, particularly Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) and Charles Perrault (16281703). Many definitions and explanations of the term fairytale exist in literary scholarship. Some are narrow and technical; others broad and inclusive. one which is especially suitable for Shvarts, Andersen, and Perrault, pointing to a common denominator among them, is by J.R.R. Tolkien:
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