Grimm's Fairy Tales Decoded Buland al-Haydar Valerio Magrelli

Valerio Magrelli

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Grimm's Fairy Tales Decoded Buland al-Haydar Valerio MagrelliWith this book, the author opens up a new dimension to the best loved fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm so familiar to us and yet so full of unfamiliar imagery and inexplicable plot twists. He reminds us that these are stories originally aimed at adults, and that they carry in their imagery a symbolic understanding and a worldview that can offer us a key to overcoming our otherwise insoluble challenges: thus through the Anthroposophical worldview,