The valiant little tailor : a novel / Éric Chevillard ; translated from the French by Jordan Stump.
"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 tr...
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| Other title: | Vaillant petit tailleur. English. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English French |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | Margellos world republic of letters book.
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| Summary: | "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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| Item Description: | "Originally published in French as Le vaillant petit tailleur, ©2003, by Les Éditions de Minuit" -- Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9780300268492 0300268491 |