4thace reviewed Fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm by Philip Pullman
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4 stars
We all know that the original versions of classic fairy tales were weird, but it's good to take a look at exactly how weird they were. Disappearing characters utterly lacking in motives, deviant urges, just plain strange over the top situations that the characters accept as a matter of course, you will find them all here. Also, fairy tales that sound like knockoffs of other, better-known, fairy tales. To me, these represent the primordial soup of storytelling before modern ideas of what stories ought to feature had taken hold.
We all know that the original versions of classic fairy tales were weird, but it's good to take a look at exactly how weird they were. Disappearing characters utterly lacking in motives, deviant urges, just plain strange over the top situations that the characters accept as a matter of course, you will find them all here. Also, fairy tales that sound like knockoffs of other, better-known, fairy tales. To me, these represent the primordial soup of storytelling before modern ideas of what stories ought to feature had taken hold.