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Still, many of the Grimm’s tales are “quite dull,” according to Tatar. Fables, peasant tales and bumpkins all represent “a culture [that] is sort of lost to us.” She chose the stories to include not only to reflect the breadth of subject matter, but also to appeal to her audience...
...Tatar says she wants readers both young and old to enjoy the stories. “It’s really cross-generational,” she says. “The hope is that it will be a kind of contact zone for adults and children to talk about these stories that have grown so important to our culture and that are constantly recycled...
That being said, there are a number of tales at the back of the book for adults only. These are shorter than the others, though Tatar admits that this is “more of an accident” than indicative of a pattern. “I suppose I didn’t want to torture readers with the longer ones,” she laughs...
Though they contain prominent references to magic, the adult stories are not so much fairy tales as sensational bits of gossip. Tatar says this points very clearly to the fact that fairy tales “had their origins in a culture of adult storytelling,” spreading bits of news across the country in much the way TV or even pornography does so today...
...disturbing, such as “The Jew in Brambles,” about a Jew who is forced to dance in a thorn patch and is later hanged. “[These stories] are so incredibly different from what we’re familiar with,” Tatar says. “But they’re still widely anthologized in a sort of mindless way.” “The Jew in the Brambles,” for example, has recently been included in a collection of the Grimm’s Tales specifically marketed...