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The Juniper Tree is a 1985 novel by British writer Barbara Comyns. The penultimate novel of the author, it combines gothic literature , family drama, magical realism , and fairy tale . [ 1 ] The book contains allusions to the 1812 fairy tale " The Juniper Tree " by the Brothers Grimm , which is where the title of the novel comes from.
"The Juniper Tree" (also "The Almond Tree"; Low German: Von dem Machandelboom) is a German fairy tale published in Low German by the Brothers Grimm in Grimm's Fairy Tales in 1812 (KHM 47). [1] The story contains themes of child abuse , murder , cannibalism and biblical symbolism and is one of the Brothers Grimm's darker and more mature fairy tales.
In the 1980s, Comyns published three more novels: The Juniper Tree, Mr. Fox (written in the 1940s), and The House of Dolls (written in the 1960s). [ 18 ] Death and legacy
The Juniper Tree, a 1990 film starring Björk; The Juniper Tree, a 1985 opera composed by Philip Glass and Robert Moran; The Juniper Tree, a 1997 opera by Roderick Watkins (music) and Patricia Debney (libretto) The Juniper Tree, a 1985 novel by Barbara Comyns "The Juniper Tree", a 2000 short science fiction story by John Kessel
Each issue of Grimm Fairy Tales has two parts: a frame story and a fairy tale. The frame story revolves around Dr. Sela Mathers, a professor of literature with the supernatural ability to help people to avoid bad life decisions by subjecting them to visions, in which they see themselves as the protagonists of allegorical fairy tales.
Nietzchka Keene (June 26, 1952 – October 20, 2004) [1] was an American film director and writer best known for The Juniper Tree, a feature film shot in Iceland starring the Icelandic singer Björk in her first film role.
Set in the world of her debut novel, Juniper and Thorn was inspired by the Grimm's fairytale The Juniper Tree. [6] Due to her family's ties to Ukraine, she specifically wanted to set the novel in a fictional analog to Odesa, Ukraine, to "sweep away" cliches of Eastern Europe. [1] It was published in June 2021. [1]
The Juniper Tree is a 1990 Icelandic medieval fantasy drama film written and directed by Nietzchka Keene. Based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale " The Juniper Tree ", the film was shot in black-and-white in a small budget in 1986.