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The Valiant Little Tailor

The Valiant Little Tailor

Chevillard, Eric
Stump, Jordan

Paperback

Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters

General FictionLiterary Fiction

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ISBN10: 0300253192
ISBN13: 9780300253191
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Sep 27 2022
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
The classic Grimms' fairy tale of the valiant little tailor, as you've never read it before

A creative take on storytelling, suggesting the potential in even the most familiar tale, with Chevillard riffing comfortably across subject-matters and stories old and new.--M. A.Orthofer, Complete Review

Once upon a time, there lived a valiant little tailor who killed seven flies with one blow--but who is this narrator who has abruptly inserted himself into the story, claiming authorship? He's indignant: the fairy tale, borne carelessly along by the popular imagination, subjected to the transformations of oral tradition, was collected in a lamentable state by the Brothers Grimm, and he intends to restore the tale and its giant-slaying, unicorn-fighting, boar-hunting star to their original magnificence. But the true hero of the story remains to be seen: Is it the tailor, the narrator, or someone else entirely?

In this explosive retelling of the classic tale, Éric Chevillard enlists the reader in a dizzying game of crack-the-whip, with new directions and delights in every paragraph. At once irreverent and deeply sincere, this book is a mischievous, multifarious celebration of the power of stories and those who tell them.

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