Hans My Hedgehog: Difference between revisions

* Hans my Hedgehog was readapted by the German children's book-writer [[Janosch]], in ''Janosch erzählt Grimms Märchen'' 1972, translated as ''Not Quite as Grimm''. Janosch's fairy-tale book distinguishes itself from all previous fairy-tale books. It lives from the lively language stamped by the oral tradition. It demands reading aloud: it is acoustic and at the same time porous enough so that the child can make something out of the telling by himself or herself. In short, the anachronistic language of the children's book that has been polished for children is missing. The form of the fairy-tale material that the [[Brothers Grimm]] had gathered loses its conservative form. In reading Janosch the reader leaves the ceremonial fairy-tale seriousness of the Brothers Grimm. This does not mean that he has less than what the brothers have too much. As [[Jack Zipes]] summarizes, "Hans is transformed from a porcupine looking character into a hippy rock singer, who plays the harmonica. When his father gives him sunglasses and a motorcycle to get rid of him, he goes into the city and eventually becomes a movie star named Jack Eagle (Jack Adler). In the end the father is proud of him, and everyone from the village wants to look like him."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Zipes |first=Jack |author-link=Jack Zipes |year=2000 |title=The Contamination of the Fairy Tale, or the Changing Nature of the Grimms' Fairy Tales |journal=Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts |volume=11 |issue=1 (41) |page=84<!--77–93--> |jstor=43308420}}. Reprinted in Zipes (2001) ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=b2cYAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA109 Sticks and Stones]'', pp. 109–110.</ref>