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A wonderfully original work. Maggi's analysis is erudite but adventurous, and he is an exacting, inquisitive, and often brilliant, reader. He combines and links the macroscopic--the consideration of major questions in literary and cultural history--and the microscopic--extended close readings--in exemplary fashion. This is a book about fairy tales, but it is also an extended reflection on the fundamental human activity of narration itself--why and how we tell tales, and how these tales transform over time. --Nancy L. Canepa, Dartmouth University

A wonderfully original work. Maggi's analysis is erudite but adventurous, and he is an exacting, inquisitive, and often brilliant reader. He combines and links the macroscopic-the consideration of major questions in literary and cultural history-and the microscopic-extended close readings-in exemplary fashion. This is a book about fairy tales, but it is also an extended reflection on the fundamental human activity of narration itself-why and how we tell tales and how these tales transform over time. (Nancy L. Canepa, Dartmouth College)

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Armando Maggi is professor of romance languages and literatures and a member of the Committee on the History of Culture at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, including Satan's Rhetoric and The Resurrection of the Body: Pier Paolo Pasolini from Sade to Saint Paul, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

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