Angela Carter
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| Original Title: | The Bloody Chamber & Other Stories |
| ISBN: | 014017821X (ISBN13: 9780140178210) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Cheltenham Prize for Literature (1979) |
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Angela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of such contemporary masters of supernatural fiction as Neil Gaiman, David Mitchell, Audrey Niffenegger, J. K. Rowling, and Kelly Link, who introduces this edition of Carter's most celebrated book, published for the seventy-fifth anniversary of her birth.In The Bloody Chamber - which includes the story that is the basis of Neil Jordan's 1984 movie The Company of Wolves - Carter spins subversively dark and sensual versions of familiar fairy tales and legends like "Little Red Riding Hood," "Bluebeard," "Puss in Boots," and "Beauty and the Beast," giving them exhilarating new life in a style steeped in the romantic trappings of the gothic tradition.
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| Title | : | The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories |
| Author | : | Angela Carter |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 128 pages |
| Published | : | 1990 by Penguin Books (first published 1979) |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Fantasy. Fiction. Horror. Fairy Tales. Gothic. Feminism |
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Perfection! Carter retells classic fairy tales with an emphasis on gender, dreams, sexuality, and death. But wait didn't all of these fairy tales already emphasize those things? Sure, sure. But Carter makes certain those aspects are front and center in her retelling. The collection is definitely not for kids. The subtext has become the text and that means all of the things between the lines and behind closed doors are naked, on display. All the better to deconstruct you with, my dear, as theHey there Little Red Riding Hood,You sure are looking good.Youre everything a big bad wolf could want.Listen to meI dont think little big girls shouldGo walking in these spooky old woods alone. Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, 1962In The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carters uses a decidedly feminist slant to re-tell familiar myths and stories. The Company of Wolves, for example, provides a point-by-point rebuttal of the myths embedded in the more modern versions of Little Red Riding Hood. Interestingly,
What an excellent bundle of stories bringing it all back home, fairytales-and-folklore-wise, stripped of their deceptive pop-culture whitewash, all blood-splattered and primal and sensual and lady-teachy. I don't know which rose pricked me deeper; the blood countess stricken with sudden, self-sacrificial hideousness in the eternal sleep of light-of-day at finding a pure, deserving specimen of love, "dropped off to sleep over the cards of destiny that are so fingered, so soiled, so worn by
Fairy tales are mostly about fucking. You already knew that, but it wasn't really explicitly pointed out until Angela Carter, the towering misty cult mid-1900s author, flipped them on their backs. Neil Gaiman said she pointed out, "'You see these fairy stories, these things that are sitting at the back of the nursery shelves?...Each one of them is a loaded gun.'" Here she is looking like she's got a gunThe thing with fairy tales is that it's not just stories for children that are dark and lurid,
Read a book of short stories. --------------------Well, I'm in a bit of a fairy-tale re-imagining place lately....this one is getting bumped up on the pile.Buddy read with two of my favorite ladies, Heather and Karly for July 1.---------------------So when I totalled up all my stars for each story and divided them by the number of stories, this book fell onto 2.7 stars. I guess I will round this bitch up star-wise, but it's still only a 2.5 star read for me. What a disappointment. I'm never
After the rigorous pounding that I got while reading The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr Hoffman, I certainly wasn't expecting this almost diffident collection of short stories.Reading the whole collection the sense of Carter's craft is very strong - emphasised by having stories like The Courtship of Mr Lyon and The Tiger's Bride which are variants of the same folktale, or the repetition of the same elements - such as the magical power of virginity in The Lady of the House of Love and The Company
An extraordinarily sensual, symbol-rich, collection of very adult tales of enchantment, focusing on female protagonists. Some are dirtier versions of the familiar, some are barely recognisable beyond title and names, and a couple were unknown to me. The Lyon and Tiger stories are variants of each other, and it ends with three relating to wolves, two of which are versions of Little Red Riding Hood.There is blood in the title, and there are many allusions to literal and metaphorical blood (mainly
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