Italo Calvino's Retelling of "The Sorceress's Head"; Keys of Absurdism, Artifice, Expressionism and Symbolism (Part Two)

October 02, 2021 by Matthew Pungitore

If monsters existed, would they be works of nature? If those who wrote or read the folktale believed in the monsters and the magic happenings, are those constructs artificial? A challenge occurs when reexamining or modernizing folklore.

Italo Calvino's Retelling of "The Sorceress's Head"; Keys of Absurdism, Artifice, Expressionism and Symbolism (Part One)

October 01, 2021 by Matthew Pungitore

Storytelling and folktales have been with human beings for a long time. The superior folktale is that which is touched by both the fantastical and the frightful. These kinds are the tales that get retold and transformed again and again, especially by those who yearn to feel and dwell upon the macabre and the decadent and the most astonishing, heightened emotions brought on by elements of the grotesque and the sublime.