Ergebnis für "Rapunzel" in Belletristik

Das Märchen der Gebrüder Grimm - auf beklemmende Weise neu erzählt. Mittelpunkt der Geschichte ist ein junges Mädchen, ein modernes Rapunzel, eingesperrt in das Beziehungsgeflecht ihrer Familie. Ihr Weg hinaus führt über ihr Haar und über eine merkwürdige Krankheit: Trichophagie, der Zwang, die eigenen Haare auszureißen und zu verschlucken.

"Rapunzel" is a German fairy tale in the collection assembled by the Brothers Grimm, and first published in 1812 as part of Children's and Household Tales. A lonely couple, who wants a child, lives next to a walled garden belonging to an evil witch named Dame Gothel. The wife, experiencing the cravings associated with the arrival of her long-awaited pregnancy, notices some rapunzel, growing in the garden and longs for it. She refuses to eat anything else and gets sick, and the husband begins to fear for her life.

This collection of fourteen reimagined Grimm's fairy tales from award-winning author Mark Russell offers a biting new perspective while proving the classics never go out of style. In the two hundred years since Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm first published their collection of fairy tales, things...