Abstract
SummaryThe novel Snow White by Donald Barthelme is a modernized and trivialized reversal of the original fairy‐tale. By the total inversion of the text, Barthelme questions the very message of the Märchen itself: he maintains ‐ in contrast to the Märchen ‐ the general impossibility of happiness and of the successful development of personality.The Märchen appears in Barthelme's book in two layers: as its absolutely modified story and in the form of quotations from the original text. These quotations concern Snow White's body and soul and underline Barthelme's psychological message of human frustration.
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