Fairy Tales and Fables from Weimar Days

by Jack D. Zipes

Book Overview

This text brings together the personal, communal, and national political strands that interweave through the author's work from its beginnings and defines his place as a contemporary artist, activist, and gay man.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029915744X
• ISBN13: 9780299157449
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Who says fairy tales are just for kids?

This small collection of fairy tales written by different authors in Germany in the 1920s is an intriguing study of modern life. These writers used an older literary form prominent in their shared German heritage to express their ambivalence in contemporary society--gone are the millers, kings, and spirits of Grimm, replaced with the automobiles, noisy cities, and social conflicts of the 1920s and 1930s.