Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales Paperback - 2014
by Kurt Schwitters; Jack Zipes (Translator); Irvine Peacock (Illustrator)
From the rear cover
"In these absurdist parables, Schwitters's savage clowning empties the fairy tale of its easy consolations. He revisits the traditions in the melancholic, mordant voice of irony and satire, and, as with other fabulists--Voltaire, Swift, Kafka, Capek--his stories still speak to us now as freshly as when they were written, and entertain us richly."--Marina Warner, author of Phantasmagoria
"Kurt Schwitters's fairy tales can be safely read to children, without boring the parents. While children will be delightfully dreaming themselves in wondrous worlds, the parents can contemplate existential questions and take shortcuts to understanding the absurdity of war, the vacuity of power, and the vanity of wealth. Schwitters, the most childlike Dadaist, was a fierce defender of innocence and an equally fierce critic of society. His tales are well drawn paths in a magically lit moral landscape."--Andrei Codrescu, author of The Posthuman Dada Guide
"This collection of Kurt Schwitters's little-known fairy tales reveals that he was a master of literary satire in addition to being one of Weimar Germany's most prominent artists. With its elegant translations, charmingly impudent illustrations, and lively introduction, this book will earn a steady readership."--Maria Tatar, editor of The Classic Fairy Tales
"This is a very enjoyable collection of subversively humorous stories, and I found myself laughing out loud while reading them. The fairy tale served as apt material for Kurt Schwitters to play with conventions, produce nonsense within well-known plots, or wreak havoc in everyday routines, all in order to critique bourgeois values, religion, nationalism, and Nazism, and to open up the imaginations of children and adults to his artistic worldview."--Cristina Bacchilega, author of Postmodern Fairy Tales
"Schwitters's fairy tales are especially interesting because they document the vitality of experimentation in the genre that occurred in Germany in the first half of the twentieth century. While Grimms' tales were increasingly co-opted by nationalists and fascists, writers such as Schwitters sought to rewrite the genre as a form of sociopolitical resistance and cultural reformation. Translated, edited, and introduced by Jack Zipes, the world's leading expert on the fairy tale, this volume has a special value."--Donald Haase, editor of Marvels and Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies
Details
- Title Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales
- Author Kurt Schwitters; Jack Zipes (Translator); Irvine Peacock (Illustrator)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition New
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press
- Date 2014-04-06
- Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780691160993 / 0691160996
- Weight 0.61 lbs (0.28 kg)
- Dimensions 7.73 x 5.65 x 0.65 in (19.63 x 14.35 x 1.65 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1920's
- Chronological Period: 1930's
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Cultural Region: Germany
- Library of Congress subjects Fairy tales - Germany
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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