A suposta busca da versão “verdadeira” de um conto de fadas como provocação reflexiva metaficcional na esteira do possível

Abstract

The search for a supposedly “original” version of traditional fairy tales seems to be, within the research of the genre, as fascinating as the textualities that make it up. Both the persistent attempts to delimit and circumscribe the creative role played by, for example, Charles Perrault and the Grimm Brothers, in their literary versions of these narratives, as well as the search for records of oral versions that preceded them, denounce the notable interest in a Cartesian pursuit of the supposed “truth” of fairy tales that, in some ways, paradoxically contradicts the kind of knowledge in which art and literature themselves consist: the scope of a superior and idiosyncratic form of knowledge governed by the branches of the possible truth. Here, inspired by Chapeuzinho Vermelho: a verdadeira história, by AR Almodóvar and Marc Taeger,  we analyze to the development of the reflections that it, as a metafictional textuality, raises about itself and its nature by showing us its own engines.