Sunday, January 22, 2017

After grimm

Doris Vella Camilleri's study, The Good, the Bad and the Miraculous in Folktale, published by the Edward de Bono Foundation, includes a new version of the Maltese Rapunzel (Fenchelchen). Here, she offers interpretations of this fairytale and analyses a number of other classical fairytales. "Analysing a tale finds a different meaning from that of the storyteller. And the more widespread the folktale the more universal is the theme." This is how Lulz Rohrich analysed and interpreted many Grimm fairytales. Max Luthi tells us the Grimm Brothers managed to translate this 17th-century fairy tale... This article is part of our premium content. Full story is available on Times of Malta Premium.

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