Between the Silence, Fairy Tales
by Sam Samore
© 2007, Le Méridien Books
Pagination: 96 pages
Date of publication: 2007
Language: English
1001 copies
“One of my many goals is to confuse fact and fiction — thereby seeking out the “kernel of truth” in a tale. It’s my belief that our everyday experience of the world is based on received narratives: the stories passed down to us by families, education work. Towards that end I appropriate well-known fairytales, obscure folklore, famous works of literature. With these chronicles as my clay, I rewrite or add to an existing plot, and sometimes invent my own storyline — always holding on to the embedded power of myth”. Sam Samore
Visual artist, filmmaker, writer, poet, Sam Samore is a fabulist who makes his narratives come alive. Between the Silence, is a book of bedtime stories created specifically for Le Méridien. A book one can read on any occasion, in any order, a pathway to one sleep. This book brings back an imaginary world that reveals the unspoken. But why are fairy tales so important today? Like video games, they allow us to project ourselves into another world that shares many common features with the real world. It is a door to the imagination with a corridor to the real. Fairy tales allow us to view everyday life with some wisdom, examining the human condition from a framework that appears elegantly simple, while still retaining deep mysteries.
