Get It Now The Fairy Tales Of Charles Perrault (Wisehouse Classics Editionwith Original Color Illustrations By Harry Clarke) Authored By Charles Perrault Available Through Digital Edition

una bella traduzione delle fiabe di Perrault! Eh sì, perché tra adattamenti, semplificazioni, retelling e così via peraltro quasi tutti pietosi e omologati allo stile Disney finiamo per dimenticarci lorigine di tanta grazia.
Sfogliando queste pagine riscopriamo che la bella addormentata non si svegliò con un bacio, Che Cappuccetto Rosso non venne salvata dal cacciatore, E che il re di Pelle dAsino voleva sposare nientemeno che sua figlia! Soprattutto, troviamo uno stile impeccabile: semplice, elegante, con un pizzico di raffinata ironia che delizierà i palati più fini.
E i bambini Perché le fiabe si sa, devono piacere a loro, Che i piccoli non possano apprezzare la prosa di Perrault, specialmente letto ad alta voce, è tutto da dimostrare.
Come sempre accade per i grandi classici la scrittura si presta a più livelli dinterpretazione, Un libro stupendo, per tutti gli appassionati di fiabe e non solo!

Sulle illustrazioni: il testo è accompagnato dalle illustrazioni di Élodie Nouhen.
Sono immagini di gusto tipicamente francese, con un tono dimesso, quasi a non voler surclassare limportanza delle parole.
Non è esattamente quello che ci si aspetta in un libro di fiabe, ma visto lintento dellopera, direi che sono immagini perfette.


Sulledizione: discorso

diverso sul libro in quanto oggetto, Il volume è un formato Acon pagine di carta cellulosa, Tutto nella norma, dunque Sì, se non avessi anche ledizione francese dello stesso libro, Un albo dixcm e pagine in carta lucida, Ledizione italiana costa, quella francese,
,algunos cuentos son macabros, Con razón hay tantas versiones, creo que pase mi infancia engañada, Los seres humanos somos crueles y de ahí salen los relatos de nuestra naturaleza, اعتراني الفضول لأن أبحث عن كاتب قصص الأطفا الشهيرة مثل "سندريلا وليلي والذئب"واستعيد ذكريات الطفولة بنسختها الورقية فإذا "بشارل بيرو"واضع حجر الأساس للحكاية الخرافية و من رواد الكتاب الذين حولوا القصص الشفوية المتداولة بين العامة إلى أدب له قواعده ومناخه وأساليبه سابقا بذلك الأخوين غريم في ألمانيا ,حتى أضحى بذلك من أهم وجوه الأدب الفرنسي في القرن السابع عشر.
اكتشفت أن مصطلح "كان يا مكان "المتعارف عليه عربيا قبل الشروع بالحكاية هو من ابتكار شارل بيرو حتى أضحى فاتحة للحكايات فارضة نفسها على ثقافات الشعوب قاطبة.
يحوي هذا الكتاب على تسعة حكايات منها ما هو مألوف في تراثنا العربي كذات الرداء الأحمر والحسناء النائمة, ومنها ما هو غير مألوف كذو اللحية الزرقاء وتدور أغلبها حول الصراع الأزلي بين الخير والشر والذي يحتم تداوله في أدب الناشئة يتبعها في خاتمة كل حكاية العبرة والعظة منها
والحق أن الثناء الذي يستحق ذكره هو الترجمة السلسة والسرد العذب الذي اكتنف الكتاب حيث أن الترجمة والتعريب لأي كتاب تمثل في نظري الركيزة الأساسية لتقييمه
ومن العبر التي استقيتها من هذه الحكايات
الفضول بكل ما فيه من جاذبية "
غالبا ما يفضي بنا إلى الندم
فما أن نفوز به حتى يصير عدما
مع أنها تكلفنا الكثير دوما"

عذوبة الكلام تحقق من النتائج مالا تقدر عليه أفعال كثيرة, Edit sitelinkRiquet with the Tuft review of a Perrault fairy tale that is mystifyingly not a Disney movie.


When I was very young, my grandmother had a set of very small books with uncut pages.
One of the books was an early edition of Charles Perrault's fairy tales with handprinted woodblock illustrations.
Another was Grimms'. Naturally I cut the pages and read the stories which were bloody and didn't always have nice endings.
At least one of the ugly sisters tumbled into a well to be devoured by snakes in one version, in another they both get their eyes pecked out by birds and are cast out to live as blind beggars.
The Little Mermaid, offered a choice between murdering the prince's bride or committing suicide, chooses the latter.
And poor Little Red Riding Hood didn't escape those big, bad teeth!

These stories, before Disney got them, were wonderful.
Children like blood and guts as much as they like marshmallows and cuddly bears, but today everything is sanitised for them.
I wonder why the policy has not decreased the amount of violence in the world by one jot.


My grandmother, who not very pleased at my cutting the pages on these valuable books, gave them to me and for years they were stored in my attic along with the thingsthatmightcomeinusefuloneday that we all have, inherited silver that needed endless polishing, cassettes from my djing days and even my old teddy bear who'd lost all his stuffing and had such a sad face.


I had two thieving tenants who took my valuable books, One guy also been not too honest with the rent, bouncing cheques, that kind of thing, and would cry PREJUDICE at everything.
If I didn't like blacks why would I have rented my place to him Or married one and had children, or live in the West Indies Still, it probably got him out of a lot of situations where people were too uncomfortable to speak up and let him get away with shit.
I wasn't intimidated though and eventually got most of the money he owed me and threats from his father and gave him notice to leave.
He raided my attic, took the silver and also took with him some of my best Haitian paintings, and these lovely little handprinted children's fairy tales.
It made me very sad to lose them this way and I always wondered if I would come across them in an antique shop one day.
But so far, no luck, perrault le misogyne Yes. I'm reviewing The Tales Of Mother Goose and I'm not ashamed of it,

So, I was looking at my childhood shelves yes, that actually exists this morning and I ended up rerererereading Perrault's fairy tales.
I decided to write some lines because, well, it's Sunday and I didn't have this book on my GR shelves even though as a kid, I was a big fan of "the guy who wrote Cinderella".
And by "lines" I mean just one thought, Thesethcentury fairy tales are really, honestly, so fuckedup, Wolves and ogres eating little kids, snakes coming out of girls' mouths, cruel/negligent parents and subjugated kids, several killings for different reasons hunger, disobedience.
I wouldn't have been able to get a good night sleep after hearing about grandma's desire of eating her grandsons.
And what about hubby serial killer Bluebeard Wasn't he a delight
Disney certainly gave us a lighter version of all these.


There are little pieces of truth inside those innocent tales “The Fairies”, where there's a mother who loved the elder daughter because she resembled her so closely “as people naturally love their own likeness” and other stuff are confusing and unfair ugly people telling you it's more important to be smart than beautiful but eventually, they end up being beautiful too, so.

I've always enjoyed the morals those little verses at the end of the tale that shows the author's interpretation.
After a bloody, disturbing tale, there's usually a lesson to be learned,

Nature oft, with open arms,
Lavishes a thousand charms
But it is not these that bring
True love's truest offering.

'Tis some quality that lies
All unseen to other eyes
Something in the heart or mind.

Jan,
Also on sitelinkmy blog, We all know fairy tales of course and we had read them, heard them, seen their movies and maybe dreamt of them or even made up our own fairy tales.
All the stories in the book are made into movies except I guess Tom Thumb if I am not mistaken but the most that was made into so many movies is Cinderella or Cindyslut as one of the sisters had called her in the book.


What I liked though is the moral of the stories at the end of each one, so I am going to put these excerpts:

Moral
Many a girl has waited long
For a husband brave or strong But Im sure I never met
Any sort of woman yet
Who could wait a hundred years, Free from fretting, free from fears.

Now, our story seems to show That a century or so,
Late or early, matters not True love comes by fairylot.
Some old folk will even say It grows better by delay,
Yet this good advice, I fear,
Helps us neither there nor here,
Though philosophers may prate
How much wiser tis to wait,
Maids will be asighing still
Young blood must when young blood will!

Moral
Little girls, this seems to say, Never stop upon your way.

Never trust a strangerfriend
No one knows how it will end,
As youre pretty, so be wise Wolves may lurk in every guise, Handsome they may be, and kind, Gay, or charmingnever mind! Now, as then, tis simple truth Sweetest tongue has sharpest tooth

Moral

Ladies, you should never pry, Youll repent it by and by!
Tis the silliest of sins
Trouble in a trice begins.

There are, surelymores the woe! Lots of things you need not know, Come, forswear it now and here Joy so brief, that costs so dear!
Another Moral
You can tell this tale is old
By the very way its told.
Those were days of derringdo Man was lord, and master too, Then the husband ruled as king, Now its quite a different thing Be his beard what hue it may Madam has a word to say

Moral
Its a pleasant thing, Im told,
To be left a pile of gold.

But theres something better still,
Never yet bequeathed by will,
Leave a lad a stock of sense
Though with neither pounds nor pence And hell finish, as a rule,
Richer than the gilded fool.

Another Moral
Can the heart of a Princess
Yield so soon to borrowed dress
So it seemsbut wait a while
Tis not all a tale of guile.

He was young and straight of limb She was just the girl for him,
He was brave, and she was fair,
Tell me, when the right mans there Be he but a millers son
What Princess will not be

Moral
Diamonds and rubies may
Work some wonders in their way But a gentle word is worth
More than all the gems on earth.

Another Moral
Thoughwhen otherwise inclined Its a trouble to be kind,
Often it will bring you good
When youd scarce believe it could

Moral
Beauty is a treasure rare.
Who complains of being fair
He perceived that her little foot slid in without trouble
Yet theres still a something more That good fairies have in store.

Tis that little gift called grace, Weaves a spell round form and face, Of each word makes magic, too, Lends a charm to all you do.

This it wasand nothing less Cinderellas fairy dress!
And if you would learn the way How to get that gift today
How to point the golden dart
That shall pierce the Princes heart Ladies, you have but to be
Just as kind and sweet as she!
Another Moral
Godmothers are useful things Even when without the wings.
Wisdom may be yours and wit, Courage, industry, and grit
Whats the use of these at all, If you lack a friend at call

Moral
Heres a fairy tale for you, Which is just as good as true.
What we love is always fair, Clever, deft, and debonair,
Another Moral
Nature oft, with open arms, Lavishes a thousand charms But it is not these that bring True loves truest offering.
Tis some quality that lies
All unseen to other eyes Something in the heart or mind Love alone knows how to find

Moral
Children are a pride to all
When theyre handsome, straight, and tall.
But how many homes must own
Some odd mite whos seldom shown Just a little palefaced chap,
No one thinks is worth a rap!
Parents, brothers, laugh him down
Keep him mute with sneer and frown.

Yet its Little Thumbling may
Bring them fortune one fine day
,