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Fairy Tales
A general discussion about fairy tales: your favorites, underrated fairy tales and fairy tale authors, fairy tale scholarship and criticism, it's all free game.
My personal favorite that I've read is "The Juniper Tree". Grotesque and sublime. |
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Re: Fairy Tales
Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories.
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Neil Gaiman's comic book series The Sandman is not a fairy tale as such, but it does include a lot of fairy tale elements. I've been curious about it for a while but haven't made up my mind to order it yet. So this is perhaps an occasion to ask what people think of it?
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Attachment 1461Thanks for the recommendations, I will add The Juniper Tree and The Bloody Chamber to my reading list.
I haven't read it myself but I have heard positive things from my friend. Personally, I won't pick it up until I finish everything on my book shelf. A favorite of mine with fairy tale elements: A Feather Pillow by Horacio Quiroga. I think this is the (nonofficial ?) best translation I've seen. His The Beheaded Chicken story is good too. | |||||||||||
"Tell me how you want to die, and I'll tell you who you are. In other words, how do you fill out an empty life? With women, books, or worldly ambitions? No matter what you do, the starting point is boredom, and the end self-destruction. The emblem of our fate: the sky teeming with worms. Baudelaire taught me that life is the ecstasy of worms in the sun, and happiness the dance of worms."
---Tears and Saints, E. M. Cioran
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I recently read a collection of Quiroga's stories from University of Wisconsin Press, and I was very impressed with the quality if his stories. I'm less familiar with his jungle fairy tales, though "Anaconda" was included in this edition. I found that tale alone better than the majority of Kipling's Jungle Book tales. |
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Been meaning to pick this up for some time. |
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I did not read that many fairy tales; that said, Alan Lee and Olivier Ledroit fairy artwork is amazing, as is, of course, anything by Richard Dadd. Oh, and everything related to the Cottingley Fairies.
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Your fall should be like the fall of mountains. But I was before mountains. I was in the beginning, and shall be forever. The first and the last. The world come full circle. I am not the wheel. I am the hand that turns the wheel. I am Time, the Destroyer. I was the wind and the stars before this. Before planets. Before heaven and hell. And when all is done, I will be wind again, to blow this world as dust back into endless space. To me the coming and going of Man is as nothing.
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Spells of Enchantment: the wondrous fairy tales of western culture. edited by Jack Zipes An outstanding 800 page anthology of 'adult fairy tales' ('wonder tales'); nearly 70 writers included, from Apuleius through E.T.A. Hoffmann to Philip K. Dick. Lots of stuff not available or not easily available anywhere else.
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Here's one of my favorite tales, "Youth Without Age and Life Without Death". It's Romanian and has quite a pessimistic ending, making one wonder if Cioran ever read it as a child:
Youth Without Age and Life Without Death - Romanian folktale |
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“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales.”
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