fairy tales – Little Bristling Soul

Margaret Atwood from Interlunar

Anselm Kiefer, Rapunzel, 2005. Oil, paint, emulsion, shellac, soil on photographic paper on cardboard with hair. 100 x 75 cm

When her kiss transforms the Beast, she is furious.

“You should have warned me! Here I was smitten by an exceptional being, and all of a sudden, my fiance becomes an ordinary distinguished young man!”

the 1909 play Beauty and the Beast: Fantasy in Two Acts by Fernand Noziere, the very first published version of the story where the Beauty is disappointed when the Beast transforms into a human at the end. (via corseque)

Source: corseque