Who knew those folks back then could be so nasty?
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Happy? Valentine’s Day
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Forgotten Tales
Illustration by Arthur Rackham from the 1916 English translation edition of Kinder-und Hausmärchen
“The Grimms have often been criticized, especially by critics in the last 50 years, for having changed and edited the tales from the first to the seventh edition. That is, they never lived up to their own words that the task of the collector is to record the tales exactly as they heard them. In other words, various critics have complained that the Grimms’ tales are inauthentic folk tales. But this is a ridiculous if not stupid argument, for nobody can ever record and maintain the authenticity of a tale. It is impossible. And yet, the Grimms, as collectors, cultivators, editors, translators, and mediators, are to be thanked for endeavoring to do the impossible and to work collectively with numerous people and their sources to keep traditional stories and storytelling alive. In this respect their little known first edition deserves to be rediscovered, for it is a testimony to forgotten voices that are actually deep within us. Hence, the irresistibility of the Grimms’ tales that are really not theirs, but ours.” Read more at The Public Domain Review
You can view/download the original book at Wikisource (in German).
Do you read during your break?
From The Library Time Machine, via Edwardian Era
Filed under History of Books & Libraries
The History of the English Language in 10 Minutes
Originally from The Open University, shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Licence agreement.
Filed under Humour, Online Resources
In Honour of Remembrance Day 11-11-11
The newest volume in the Canadian Battle Series, by B.C. author Mark Zuehlke is to be launched at The Glens’ (Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry Highlanders) Association in Cornwall, Ontario. You can listen to him talk about the book in this CBC interview.
All books in the series have been given four stars at Goodreads and you can read the Quill & Quire review of On to Victory: The Canadian Liberation of the Netherlands, March 23–May 5, 1945 here.
Filed under Books, Authors & Illustrators
