Marina
Warner describes in the NYRB how Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm once stripped German
folk tales of much graphic detail (“Rescuing Wonderful Shivery Tales”). Which
makes me think – could the insensitivity that the
original versions betrayed have anything to do with problematic German theories
and behaviors in the past? And help understand current German indifference in the face of so much austerity-related
hardship elsewhere – and impending
economic collapse in
Greece?
