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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, who also holds the titles of Dean for the Humanities and John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, will be discussing The Annotated Brothers Grimm, her new lushly illustrated and thoughtfully glossed book on some of the most famous (and most obscure) fairy tales in the world...
...culture has different portals for fairy tales,” Tatar explains. She points to the obvious Disney portal, which is all about the magic so “you’re not supposed to analyze. At the other end of the spectrum is Will Bennett, whose Book of Virtue transforms every tale into “a single lesson, a single moral...
...Tatar says she wants to create a new portal, one that “gives you the aesthetic side, but points to the fact that there are multiple meanings.” Annotations “emphasize differing moments we can enter the story,” she says, that allow us to “find some kind of meaning for us and for our children...
There are 210 tales in the Grimms’ complete collection. Tatar’s book includes 46, arranged in the order of the original volume. “I’m trying to capture a historical document,” Tatar says, “to let it unfold as it would for a nineteenth century reader...