Wróżki w przebraniu. Recepcja baśni pani d’Aulnoy w Polsce – rekonesans badawczy

This article focuses on the Polish reception of Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy’s fairy tales from the 18th century until the present day. It discusses their translations, as well as adaptations published with the erroneous attribution to Charles Perrault and texts loosely inspired by the work of the French conteuse. The latter’s diversity is mirrored by the varied reception, encompassing both simplified texts for children, and a moralizing-and-fantasy long poem. Nevertheless, the rococo fairy tales by Madame d’Aulnoy, displaying the esthetic ideals of 17th-century salons and engaging in an ironic game with the genre’s didactic convention, do not fit the frame of the evergreen stereotype of the fairy tale as a simple and morally unambiguous genre, intended first and foremost for children. The transgressive nature of Madame d’Aulnoy’s fairy tales may be the cause for their incomplete interpretations, as well as their limited and selective reception in Poland.