Maria Tatar, Foreign Policy
With their cannibalistic witches lurking in spooky forests, beanstalks leading to real castles in the air, and disagreeable gnomes bent on making treacherous bargains, fairy tales have a coefficient of weirdness so high that they can seem like one-offs, singular inventions rooted in one specific time and place. There's the classic French "Sleeping Beauty," the British "Jack the Giant Killer," and the German "Snow White." Then along comes the translation of a collection... Читать дальше...