Réécriture et réinterprétation écologiques des contes de fées : Trois petits cochons de Colin Thibert
Ecological Rewriting and Reinterpretation of Fairy Tales: Three Little Pigs by Colin Thibert

Summary/Abstract: In 2008, the writer Colin Thibert participated in the writing of a collection of ecological stories, in which he included an original short story entitled Three Little Pigs. It is the story of three brothers whose father and mother are pork butchers. As adults, the three brothers make different life choices: the elders enter capitalist society ; the youngest chooses to have a responsible ecological behavior. Climatic disturbances will destroy the homes of the first two brothers, thus imitating the wolf of the children’s story that blows on the houses of straw and wood. The elders will then take refuge in the ecological habitat of their younger brother. By both generic and thematic transmodalization, Colin Thibert reinterprets the tale for children. He offers the young reader a text that invites him/her to think about the excesses of our society where “man is a wolf for man” (Hobbes), because, by neglecting to preserve their environment, humans invite catastrophic destruction.

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