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Title: Grimm's Tales for Young and Old by Ralph Manheim, Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm ISBN: 0-385-18950-8 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 09 September, 1983 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: My first real taste of Grimms
Comment: Before this book, I had only known the juvenile -"G" rated versions of Grimms. As I had to read this for summer reading, I have to say, it's a bit of an eye opener. This book is great for analysis- you can see why my English teacher picked it (guess he thought we needed a challenge as we already speak English) One fault I do find is in the title: Grimms' Tales...for YOUNG and Old? I would not recomend anyone under the age of maybe thirteen to read this book. I doubt they would understand it very well.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best Translation of Grimm
Comment: I've always loved fairy tales, and I've never found a better version of Grimm's Tales. Why? The translation! Other versions tend to gloss over the details, taking away from the richness (and occasionally, gruesomeness) of the original. Manheim stays true to the spirit of the work in his translation, and the character of the original really shines through.
The best example I can give is one of the stories -- "The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers." Other versions translate this as "The Boy who left home to find out what fear was." Why is this wrong? Well, the story is really about the physical effects of fear -- shivering. He didn't actually leave home to find out about fear itself. The gist of the story is that the main character never understood why his brother would "get the shivers" when he heard a scary story, so (among other reasons) he leaves home to seek his fortune. No matter what scary things he encounters, he never gets the shivers. Finally, at the end, the princess he married gets fed up with his whining about the shivers, and while he's sleeping, dumps a bucket of cold water full of minnows on him. He wakes up happy, saying "I'm shivering, I'm shivering!"
To this day, I use this story as a test of any translation of the Brothers Grimm.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful and accurate translation of the Grimms' Tales
Comment: What a great read! As an adult reading this to myself I am enjoying these tales! Contrary to what most people think these tales truly are meant for adult ears and are of interest to all ages.
Manheim explains that in early translations these were incorrectly labeled fairy tales and mistakenly assumed they were stories for children only. Over and over I am shocked by the gruesome content and punishments. Punishment by entrapping someone inside a barrel lined with the nail heads and then rolling them down a hill, father cutting off his daughters hands to avoid harm to himself, etc.
The reason I began reading these was to get a purist idea of what the Grimms' tales were: having grown up on the Disney version I was curious about the real thing. I was surprised at what I found, and happy! I was hoping to retell these stories to my 3 year-old but I have yet to find one that is tame enough to retell to him, but that is okay.
The storytelling nature of this is truly captured and I am entranced by these tales. The translator explains in his preface that this was the first time that the tales were translated from German to English by one person who was reading the original Grimms' manuscripts. This was first published in 1977. Manheim explains how earlier translations by other translators were muddled and errors made which changed some words, and at worst enough of the content was erroneous that the reader was really missing out on the true flavor and intent of the story. Manheim claims his edition is the most pure English translation. I compared this with my copy of the Pantheon edition edited by James Stern, as I was reading both copies at the same time. I found that the Manheim edition made more sense, that is, that some words were correctly translated to English while the other book had some words that I had just never heard of and could not understand. What fun to read these tales! Reading this book has been more fun than reading some recent fictional works. I have a renewed interest in reading about the old folk tales and fables now. Indulge yourself and read this book!
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Title: Hans Christian Andersen the Complete Fairy Tales and Stories by Virginia Haviland, Hans Christian Andersen, Erik Christian Haugaard ISBN: 0385189516 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 09 September, 1983 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Grimm's Grimmest by Jacob Grimm, Maria Tatar, Tracy Arah Dockray, Wilhelm Grimm ISBN: 0811816753 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim ISBN: 0679723935 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: April, 1989 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Aesop's Fables (Oxford World's Classics) by Laura Gibbs ISBN: 0192840509 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales by Maria M. Tatar ISBN: 0691014876 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 February, 1990 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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