Kate bernheimer fairy tale is form

Fascinating essay on the form, evolution, and elements (which are traditionally flatness, abstraction, intuitive logic, and normalized magic) of fairy tale. 61 kate bernheimer a godlike and inspired creator of unique one-offs. Fairy tales offer a path to rapture—the rapture of form—where the reader or writer. But what does being “inside” a fairy tale look like? What’s its form? What logic does it use? And how does it all work, exactly?Founded in 2005 by Kate Bernheimer, Fairy Tale Review is an annual literary journal dedicated to publishing new fairy tales and to helping raise public. “I think of fairy tales as a kind of language that we know before we know language,” Bernheimer said. “I was drawn to them for their poetics.