Adela A New Fairy Tale
Far Out Fairy Tales! Discover what Snow White would be like if she were raised by robots.
Adéla Rattayová
Find out how Cinderella's story plays out when she walks the path of the ninja. Play along when three billy goats named Gruff get stuck inside a video game. Each fairy tale revision holds true to the spirit of the original while adding a modern twist to the classictales we know and love.
Experience fairy tales like never before in this innovative series of full-color comic books for kids! As you can probably guess if you are familiar with previous read and reviewed titles, I can never get tired of fairytale retellings, that's for sure. Be them dark and gruesome or on the contrary, cute and funny, I'll think twice before refusing the chance to read them. Far Out Fairytales is a collection of classic tales with modern twists in a graphic novel format, illustrated by various authors. While I can't say I absolutely loved all five of them, I definitely enjoyed seeing the twists, some being clever, others just silly.
Other ways fairy tales often do this: Belief is always already suspended. The real is unreal; the unreal is real. Logic follows an intuitive path. Terror and wonder are deep, but the stories are depthless, abstract. As such they can liberate writers and readers. Child abandonment, incest, famine, rape, identity theft, spousal abuse, madness, and plague: These are but some of the themes that nourish the tales, told through abstraction, depthlessness, everyday magic, and intuitive logic.
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These techniques leave room for the reader and are endlessly variable, too; a fairy tale has a fairy-tale affect—it is not defined by a closed set of what makes one example the Best or the Only. The kind of sensitivity to beauty and terror that permeates fairy tales—the very stories that often introduce writers to the reading sublime—should motivate us to read ethically, to be inclusive, and kind. And yet, sad to say, the gatekeepers of capital-L literature have been historically unkind to the tradition of fairy tales.
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Despite their infiltration of all literature via resistance or incorporation , fairy tales have been expressly excluded from that high-minded category, and have been ever since the rise of the novel. The following conversation took place over email, among a few of the hundreds of writers who love and are inspired by fairy tales. Auden said in another war time. Recently, I was asked to produce a list of the book I found most valuable at each year of my life.
Italo Calvino's The Baron in the Trees ; at age twenty nine: The Private Lives of Trees by Alejandro Zambra; which is to say, one book after another that seems to emerge from the fairy-tale tradition, intimating that our lives might crack open at any moment to reveal the otherworldly or the impossible. A plastic boat winds through a miniature forest populated by huge animatronic versions of Red Riding Hood and Sleeping Beauty and Aladdin, built entirely out of Lego.
They were pretty strange. But this forest was full of the most beautiful mushrooms! All different kinds and colors.
They seemed to have sprung up by accident there in the theme park. I love them almost equally. And I love how even the most banal or sanitized version of a fairy tale still contains within it the spore of some delicious-looking and possibly dangerous mushrooms.
Her sweet, wobbly voice echoing inside the wishing well! The record cover opened up and had pictures from the movie inside. The original film was rereleased in , when we were both four years old. I suspect I did read beyond those moments, but probably only to rush forward seeking more horror; once I learned that everyone lived happily ever after, I rushed backward in the stories to dwell on grimmer circumstances.
I was just mesmerized and curious, and perhaps sought some kind of comfort in the witches and wolves, and in the depiction of a child eaten, or prince blinded, or a girl stopped, followed, and snatched by the hair. I was less interested in the survival than in the awful thing survived.
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In the conclusions, I could see too much the invention of the author. The happy endings were technique, mechanics, fiction. The horrors were real.
Once these children had gotten into these various dire predicaments, it was absurd to think there would possibly be a manner of escape, no matter how clever someone like Gretel might be. That story is a miniature fairy tale in and of itself with a wonderful intertextual reference to The Story of Babar , in which the King of the elephants eats a bad mushroom, becomes ill, and dies. What would you do if? What would happen if? Children love fairy tales precisely because they speak the language of pain, suffering, loss, and torture with a candor they often do not encounter in real life.
As a child, I was hooked by the terror for sure.
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But I want to put in a word for survival. I was always amazed that the American Medical Association never told its readers the stories behind the photographs. How did the woman in that image survive those terrible rashes on her thighs and how did that man manage with the horrifyingly large boil on his cheek?
You can survive, even if your stepmother tries to kill you, and you can outwit all those other monsters in the woods. But you need brains and courage to navigate your way through the trouble, and sometimes playing the innocent is precisely what will enable you to get home again. I invented back-stories for numbers. When I was supposed to memorize multiplication tables, I made characters: Seven was mean, six was easily hurt, three was a particularly suspicious fellow, four was friendly, and so forth.
Somehow, living in stories allowed me more courage than I could have outside of books, in the land of knowledge and people. A character does not survive in a fairy tale because he or she hopes to survive: It is a means to survival when there is no other escape. The harmonious world of a fairy tale is often misunderstood as static. Kevin, your current book, The Illumination , is about people in pain, whose pain is actually illuminated. The Light Princess is cursed with these lines: It was the very first movie I saw in a theater.
What if our pain was the most beautiful thing about us? I had an image of someone literally glowing with his injuries.