Hansel & Gretel
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One of the threads in Thomas Pynchon's 'Gravity's Rainbow' is various re-tellings and blendings of the story of Hansel and Gretel. Later I will paste in a few bits from that.
This morning I went to consult the 'original' Grimm story. Two quite different versions can be found at: Hansel and Gretel by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm: a comparison of the versions of 1812 and 1857, compiled and translated by D. L. Ashliman.
The two children's stories I have posted here: The Butterfly that Stamped from Rudyard Kiplings 'Just So Stories', and Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like by Jay Williams; are both quite internally consistent and there is only one version of each. The brothers Grimm seem to have been working to a different standard - I had the same problem when I posted on Briar Rose a while ago - more on that later maybe too.
Could be Ophelia and Hamlet? ... Medea and Jason? ... Mervyn Peake's Fuschia & Steerpike come to mind; and Lord Groan, transformed into an owl when his library is burned by Steerpike.
... to be continued ...
One of the threads in Thomas Pynchon's 'Gravity's Rainbow' is various re-tellings and blendings of the story of Hansel and Gretel. Later I will paste in a few bits from that.This morning I went to consult the 'original' Grimm story. Two quite different versions can be found at: Hansel and Gretel by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm: a comparison of the versions of 1812 and 1857, compiled and translated by D. L. Ashliman.
The two children's stories I have posted here: The Butterfly that Stamped from Rudyard Kiplings 'Just So Stories', and Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like by Jay Williams; are both quite internally consistent and there is only one version of each. The brothers Grimm seem to have been working to a different standard - I had the same problem when I posted on Briar Rose a while ago - more on that later maybe too.
Could be Ophelia and Hamlet? ... Medea and Jason? ... Mervyn Peake's Fuschia & Steerpike come to mind; and Lord Groan, transformed into an owl when his library is burned by Steerpike.
... to be continued ...
Excellent blog.