"Charles De Lint - Jack, The Giant-Killer" - читать интересную книгу автора (De Lint Charles)

Chamber (and the movie “The Company of Wolves”
derived from a story in that collection) base their stories
directly on old tales, breathing new life into them, and
presenting them to the modern reader.

The Fairy Tales series presents new novels of the later
sort—novels directly based on traditional fairy tales. Each
novel in the series is firmly based on a specific, often
familiar, tale—yet each author is free to use that tale as he
or she pleases, showing the diverse ways a modern
story-teller can approach traditional material.

The novel you hold in your hands brings the old tales
of Jack the Giant-Killer and Jack and the Beanstalk, as
well as other bits of fairy lore, to modern day Canada—by
an author who has gained a wide following for his ability
to weave mythic motifs with modern characterizations and
settings, creating Fairy Tales for the Twentieth Century.
Other novels in the Fairy Tales series include a romantic
retelling of Rose White, Rose Red; Hans Christian
Andersen’s The Nightingale as a Japanese historical
fantasy; a reworking of the Hungarian The Sun, the Moon,
and the Stars into a thought-provoking modern novel; a
moody and beautiful retelling of The Briar Rose… and
much more. Fantasy and horror by some of the most
talented writers in these two fields, retelling the world’s
most beloved tales, in editions lovingly designed—as all
good Fairy Tale books should be. We hope you’ll enjoy
them.
 FOREWORD
All characters and events in this book are fictitious and
any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely
coincidental.
It was in the late summer of 1984 that Terri Windling
first told me of her concept for a series of novel-length
retellings of traditional fairy tales and asked me if I’d be
interested in doing one. The idea was so
intriguing—especially when she mentioned that said
stories could take place in any setting—that without
waiting for a contract, or even to find out if she could
place the series, I immediately sat down to work on my
contribution to it.
The principal reason for my interest was that I’d been
wanting to write a high fantasy placed in a contemporary
setting for some time. I liked the novels that I’d written to
date using this general concept, but I felt that the actual
blending of faerie with an urban setting had worked with
only varying degrees of success. In them, faerie was still
an intrusion into the real world, rather than something that
was always present, but invisible to the casual glance. This