Posts tagged Giambattista Basile
Subverting Sleeping Beauty: How My Year of Rest and Relaxation Deconstructs the “Woman Who Sleeps”
Subverting Sleeping Beauty: How My Year of Rest and Relaxation Deconstructs the “Woman Who Sleeps”

Milena Glicenstein explores the oddly familiar yet unsettling aspects of My Year of Rest and Relaxation, looking at literary influences and the subversion of fairy tale tropes.

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Literature, Book ReviewsMilena Le FouilléMy Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh, Georges Perec, sleep, A Man Asleep, Un homme qui dort, fairy tales, fairy tale tropes, sleeping women in fairy tales, Sleeping Beauty, The Brothers Grimm, Sole, Luna, e Talia, Sun, Moon and Talia, winter, Giambattista Basile, Yasunari Kawabata, House of Sleeping Beauties, Anne Sexton, popular Comment