Midway through the 1944 liberation of Paris, Ernest Hemingway told his newest fiancée: “Some of the patrols we made would scare you worse than Grimms’ Fairy Tales.” Hemingway would know; like Auden and Faulkner, Willa Cather and Toni Morrison, he was a lifelong Grimmophile. Even today, the mild and retiring siblings from Hanau, Germany, remain the world’s top purveyors of horror and magic. No German authors have been more translated, not even Goethe.
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