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Grimm's Grimmest [Hardcover]

Jacob Grimm (Author), Wilhelm Grimm (Author)
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A scholar of fairy tales, Maria Tatar, provides a fascinating introduction about the history and meaning of the stories assembled by the Brothers Grimm. She writes, for example, "We now know that the stories collected in the nineteenth-century folktale anthologies ...had their origins in an irreverent peasant culture that arose in conscious opposition to the feudal state's ruling class. By overdoing it in the realm of storytelling, these narrators were able to alleviate--if only temporarily--some of the tedium that marked the daily life of their audience ... [These tales] can be seen as the ancestors of our urban legends about vanishing hitchhikers and cats accidentally caught in the dryer or as the preliterate equivalents of tabloid tales describing headless bodies found in topless bars. But in many ways, it is the horror film to which the matter and manner of these folktales has most conspicuously migrated. Like horror films, folktales trade in the sensational--breaking taboos and enacting the forbidden with uninhibited energy."

The text of the 19 tales in this collection is based on the 1822 edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Nursery and Household Tales) by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm--before the tales were expurgated and rewritten to make them more "suitable" for children. It's bound in a handsome faux-antique format, and lavishly illustrated by Tracy Arah Dockray (15 full-page color paintings, and a black-and-white drawing on nearly every page). Most of the tales will be unfamiliar to American and English readers, who may be surprised by the graphic descriptions of incest, murder, mutilation, and cannibalism. Chronicle Books has done us a service in helping restore to our adult culture these vivid, evocative folktales. --Fiona Webster --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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First published in 1997, Grimm's Grimmest now has a blood-red, gothic cover to ensure these gruesome fairy tales will chill a whole new audience of adults. Nineteen of the darkest tales collected by the Grimm Brothers are presented unedited as originally recorded. Illustrated throughout, 14 of the stories also open with a colour oil painting commissioned for this book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!, Jan 16 2012
This review is from: Grimm's Grimmest (Hardcover)
It was exactly what I was looking for. Arrived just before Christmas and in great shape. Thanks you so much!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Very Grimm Indeed, May 25 2004
This review is from: Grimm's Grimmest (Paperback)
Maria Tatar introduces the stories and some of the variations in different editions. She also delves into the politics that have helped some stories become well known and helped keep others obscure. There is a table of contents, but the stories are in no discernable order.

This collection takes readers closer to the original tales and include incest, sex, and graphic violence. The stories are rough and sometimes hard to understand. For example, I could not understand why the daughter who had fled the castle and the incestuous advances of her father, the king, later purposefully let her identity be known to him.

These stories are excellent reading that should help tellers understand these folk tales better. They may be tellable as written to an adult audience. However, I feel that an audience that is not well-versed in the oral tradition my need some help in understanding them or putting them into context.

The illustrations have a lurid quality that intensifies the feeling of uneasiness.

Source Notes: Selected stories from the 3rd ed. (1822) of Kinder- und Hausmärchen by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.

Reviewed by Karen Woodworth-Roman, MS Library Science

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4.0 out of 5 stars Wow, Feb 22 2004
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Norliza Ismail "The Librarian" (Seria, Kuala Belait Brunei Darussalam) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Grimm's Grimmest (Paperback)
This book contains the collection of the Grimm's brothers original fairy tales, and mostly gruesome in nature, involving cannibal and gruesome acts. Fairy tales for adults and not for children's bedtime stories. It fills out the missing parts of the stories you read when you were a kid and fairytales genre lovers would denitely love to have their hands on this book.
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