Tales Of Innocence And Experience: An Exploration

Tales Of Innocence And Experience: An Exploration by Eva Figes


Authors
Eva Figes
ISBN
9780747568490
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
192
Dimensions
129 x 198mm

This is a story of childhood, of innocence and its fragility. Of the particular bond between the very old and the very young, living on the edge, sharing the moment.

'Tales Of Innocence And Experience' is a captivating exploration of the relationship between a grandmother and her granddaughter as a second baby is about to be born. Alive to the special sweetness of the relationship, Figes also explores the darker side of childhood. How in fairytales such as 'Snow White', 'Little Red Riding Hood' and 'Hansel And Gretel' difficult emotions like jealousy and anger, fear of death and abandonment are evoked and transformed by the storyteller's art.

It is at this point that the author evokes a fairy tale of her own privileged Berlin childhood which was brutally shattered when her family escaped from the Nazis to England, leaving behind her much loved grandparents, who later perished in Dachau.

As Eva Figes says, "Women lose their innocence, not with loss of virginity, but with childbirth", but a new child around allows the grandmother the chance we all seek to sneak back into the garden of innocence.
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