Snow White: A Sequel

Author: Donald Barthelme (USA)
Translator: Yu Jianhua
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: "Snow White" is a well-known fairy tale, and the Snow White in this book completely breaks free from the fairy tale mold, becoming an ordinary modern woman with worries and secrets. She can suppress emotions, feel jealous, and is full of feminist consciousness. The book is filled with black humor, making it a classic work of absurdism. Snow White After is one of the most important works of American literary master Donald Barthelme. In the master's hands, Snow White has become an ordinary modern woman, a real person with all the emotions and desires: she feels suppressed, down-and-out, and jealous, and still indulges in unrealistic fairy-tale dreams that don't fit reality. She still hopes to be the center of attention, just like before. She is already tired of this "home" and her family role, angry with a society that discriminates against women, and sick of the endless, repetitive questions from the "dwarfs." Thus, her heart is filled with a desire to change her circumstances. In despair, she even longs for an adventure involving a sex scandal to break the monotony of her life. The author uses seemingly mad narration to express a mocking, playfully cynical tone, reflecting the absurd and helpless reality of contemporary people.