Sulle ali leggere della fiaba: polimorfismo e continuità di un genere letterario

This essay aims at exploring a book recently published, Le metamorfosi della faba. The chapters included in the volume range widely on a literary genre that knows no boundaries of space and time: the classic fairy tale. This kind of storytelling has a polysemic value that allows to put in extreme evidence the formation (or Bildung) of the identity of a subject who, by moving away from known and familiar spaces, fnds himself in the dangerous condition of facing trials and obstacles. At the same time, he can see the growth of his abilities, in order to reach a fnal goal that will place him in a different social status from the initial one, thus allowing him a radical change, fully possible in fantasy, much less verifable in reality.