Tales Of Innocence And Experience An Exploration Figes Eva by Figes, Eva 9781582342597, 1582342598 instant download after payment.

183 pages ; 21 cm;"Tales of Innocence and Experience is an exploration of the relationship between a grandmother, renowned novelist Eva Figes, and her granddaughter as a second baby is about to be born. Alive to the special sweetness of this relationship, Figes also explores the darker side of childhood - how in fairy tales such as 'Snow White, ' 'Little Red Riding Hood, ' and 'Hansel and Gretel, ' difficult emotions like jealousy, anger, and fear of abandonment are called up and transformed by the storyteller's art." "When the little girl begins asking innocent questions about her grandmother's own childhood, she unwittingly opens a door into history. We learn the tale of the author's privileged Berlin childhood, which was brutally shattered when her family fled to England in 1939, leaving her grandparents behind. Returned by this act of retelling to the forest of the past, Figes finds she must confront the demons that have haunted her since, as a thirteen-year-old, she came to understand how those beloved grandparents died."--Jacket;committed to retain 20160630
"Tales of Innocence and Experience is an exploration of the relationship between a grandmother, renowned novelist Eva Figes, and her granddaughter as a second baby is about to be born. Alive to the special sweetness of this relationship, Figes also explores the darker side of childhood - how in fairy tales such as 'Snow White, ' 'Little Red Riding Hood, ' and 'Hansel and Gretel, ' difficult emotions like jealousy, anger, and fear of abandonment are called up and transformed by the storyteller's art." "When the little girl begins asking innocent questions about her grandmother's own childhood, she unwittingly opens a door into history. We learn the tale of the author's privileged Berlin childhood, which was brutally shattered when her family fled to England in 1939, leaving her grandparents behind. Returned by this act of retelling to the forest of the past, Figes finds she must confront the demons that have haunted her since, as a thirteen-year-old, she came to understand how those beloved grandparents died."--Jacket
committed to retain 20160630