First published in 1982, this delightful collection of essays and rewrites reinterprets, from a nonconformist perspective, such well-known and canonical Western stories as Grimm\'s Fairy Tales, Mother Goose stories, and Aesop\'s fables.
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Like Angela Carter\'s The Bloody Chamber , the author "breaks open classic fairy tales to find new things in them." Both Carter and Terayama give the tales a radical twist laced with dark taboo-violating undertones.
First published in 1982, this delightful collection of essays and rewrites reinterprets, from a nonconformist perspective, such well-known and canonical Western stories as Grimm\'s Fairy Tales, Mother Goose stories, and Aesop\'s fables