Contes de grimm

By Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Jiri Trnka

1946

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Une grenouille toute-puissante, une marâtre cruelle, une princesse ravissante et naïve, une sorcière redoutable : tels sont quelques-uns des personnages qui peuplent les contes des frères Grimm. Dans ces récits enchantés, la magie fait parler un miroir, métamorphose un jeune homme en corbeau et transforme une carotte en carrosse. Les héros traversent joyeusement une série d'épreuves où la faiblesse prend sa revanche sur la force, où les bons sont récompensés et les méchants punis.

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Jacob Grimm

Author · 267 books

German philologist and folklorist Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm in 1822 formulated Grimm's Law, the basis for much of modern comparative linguistics. With his brother Wilhelm Karl Grimm (1786-1859), he collected Germanic folk tales and published them as Grimm's Fairy Tales (1812-1815). Indo-European stop consonants, represented in Germanic, underwent the regular changes that Grimm's Law describes; this law essentially states that Indo-European p shifted to Germanic f, t shifted to th, and k shifted to h. Indo-European b shifted to Germanic p, d shifted to t, and g shifted to k. Indo-European bh shifted to Germanic b, dh shifted to d, and gh shifted to g. This jurist and mythologist also authored the monumental German Dictionary and his Deutsche Mythologie . Adapted from Wikipedia.

Jiří Trnka was a Czech puppet-maker, illustrator, motion-picture animator and film director. In addition to his extensive career as an illustrator, especially of children's books, he is best known for his work in animation with puppets, which began in 1946. Most of his movies were intended for adults and many were adaptations of literary works. Because of his influence in animation, he was called "the Walt Disney of Eastern Europe", despite the great differences between their works. He received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal for illustrators in 1968, recognizing his career contribution to children's literature.