Romantic Fairy Tales
Romantic Fairy Tales, edited by Various, is a collection published by Penguin on December 1, 2000, featuring 192 pages in English. This volume presents four significant works that explore the themes and preoccupations of the German Romantic movement, particularly its fascination with the mysterious and the uncanny as expressed through fairy tales.
Readers will encounter Goethe’s imaginative “Fairy Tale,” which introduces an ethereal underground realm, alongside Tieck’s “Eckbert the Fair,” where two outsiders navigate their concealed passions in dark woods. Additionally, Fouque’s “Undine” tells the story of a water nymph who discovers human suffering through love, while Brentano’s “Tale of Honest Casper and Fair Annie” reflects on the tragic consequences of pride and honor. This edition offers a literary collection that delves into the complexities of human emotions and relationships within the framework of folklore and mythology.
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The four works collected in this volume reveal the fascinating preoccupations of the German Romantic movement, which revelled in the inexplicable, the uncanny and the unknown and, especially, the mysterious world of the fairy tale. Goethe’s richly imaginative Fairy Tale (1795) depicts an ethereal underground realm and the marriage of a beautiful man and woman, whose union heralds a new age. In Tieck’s Eckbert the Fair (1797) two outsiders seek refuge in the solitude of dark woods to conceal their incestuous passion from the world, while in Fouque’s Undine (1811) a water nymph falls in love and acquires a soul, and so discovers the reality of human suffering. And Brentano’s Tale of Honest Casper and Fair Annie (1817) portrays the tragedy of a young couple, destroyed by a false sense of honour and pride.
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