TWO VOICES: Kate Bernheimer, Ilya Kaminsky, and Maria Tatar Talk Translating Fairy Tales

Summary: This Two Voices audio brings you a panel on the unique role fairy tales play in international literature. Acclaimed writer Kate Bernheimer, widely praised poet Ilya Kaminsky, and folklore and mythology expert Maria Tatar discuss the tales and rsquo; role in literature, and how they function in translation. It begins, of course, with a reading of a fairy tale. Tatar introduces the tale as the French and ldquo;Story of the Grandmother, and rdquo; though any audience would immediately recognize it as one we know by the name of its protagonist, Little Red Riding Hood. Brief though it is, this version includes every detail American audiences know about the tale while still being remarkably unsettling; each familiar line is presented with an eerily sexual undertone, the threat seeming that much more dire. In the story and rsquo;s conclusion, Little Red becomes a trickster herself . . .