Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales

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They live a carefree existence, with the cat helping him to make money by cheating at cards, until the young man actually falls in love (to the cat's disgust) with a young woman kept in a tower by a miserly, older husband who treats her only as property. All of the tales center around women, and the stories are organized into little sections, such as 'Clever Women', 'Mothers and Daughters' and of course 'Witches'. Como en toda recopilación hay historias my interesantes y otras no tanto, pero el conjunto es muy bueno y permite conocer más sobre otras culturas.

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to be something similar to magical realism in relation to the insertion of inexplicable magical elements. Stories such as "The Bloody Chamber" and "The Company of Wolves" explicitly deal with the horrific or corrupting aspects of marriage and/or sex and the balance of power within such relationships. The book is a collection of stories from all over the world, all of which based around a female character. The critic Patricia Duncker, however, was more reserved in her praise, criticising it for not breaking enough taboos. Las ilustraciones son muy bonitas, originales, y además le dan un toque especial al libro en su conjunto.The Icelandic stories tended to involve the women making themselves appear as men with penises made out of bits of seal, and there were quite a few stories involving jealous step mothers and step fathers, and cannibalism… These are proper folk fairy stories that have been handed down from generation to generation.

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Una compilación de relatos de todas las culturas que me ha encantado descubrir, además de estar todas protagonizados por mujeres de lo más peculiares. Realising the Erl-King's plan, she kills him by strangling him with his own hair, thus keeping her freedom. Cuando vi que Impedimenta había publicado este libro poco antes de las pasadas navidades me entró por los ojos en seguida. A woman moves in with a mysterious, masked "Milord", the Beast, after her father loses her to him in a game of cards. She adapted a number of her short stories for radio and wrote two original radio dramas on Richard Dadd and Ronald Firbank.Some of these are extremely obvious, like the cautionary tale about incest, but because so many of the lessons applied to the villain and not the hero, it took me a little bit to notice how resoundingly this body of culture condemns the abuse of stepchildren. In confession I must disclose that for me the tales ranged from, 'I can't follow this' to 'I'm following this but WTF? The Locus Index to Science Fiction (1984–1998); The Bloody Chamber and other stories" Archived 6 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine, 2004: source for specific contents details. I've been reading this one on and off since last year and to be honest I've sort of had a love/hate relationship with this one.

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While from Eros and Psyche bloom love, the Marquis is constantly looking to devour the heroine, to mutilate her body and objectify her in a show of Gothic horror that Edgar Allan Poe often used to influence the dark undertones in his short stories. The tales vary greatly in length, with the novelette "The Bloody Chamber" being "more than twice the length of any of the other stories, and more than thirty times the length of the shortest [the vignette "The Snow Child"]. She soon realizes the full extent of his perverse and murderous tendencies when she discovers the bodies of his previous wives, presented in gruesome ways, some of which are surrounded by the same white lilies the Marquis filled her own room with. He threatens to kill and eat her too, but she laughs in his face and proceeds to seduce him, stripping off their clothes and throwing them into the fire. This collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales and hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories from countries all around the world - from the Arctic to Asia - and no dippy princesses or soppy fairies.A magnificent collection, which manages to effectively capture the 'voice' of the various places the tales are gathered from. Pero tengo que decir algo negativo, muy negativo: he encontrado faltas de ortografía en casi todas las páginas.

This is probably a great read if you like this kind of thing but for me I won't be rushing to get anymore short stories I'm afraid. Some were written in slang and in dialect, which made them a little harder to get through (although this wasn’t a problem).As such, her prose is also influenced by post-modern conventions, shown through her frank unorthodoxy and twisted proclivities towards sex and sexuality, such as the constant implications of virginity and deflowering in both "The Bloody Chamber" and "The Tiger's Bride". No sé, le dicen que su casa está hechizada y que tiene que desollar a su gato y comerse la piel para desencantarla, y se lo cree. Many of the best stories in the collection appear here, stories I enjoyed for their kind of unexpected combination of several story ideas that might otherwise be treated separately (the Dinka stories stand out). Closer to her age, he lives in a nearby town and, after tuning the piano her husband gave to her as a wedding present, asks to hear her play once in a while. My intention was not to do 'versions' or, as the American edition of the book said, horribly, 'adult' fairy tales, but to extract the latent content from the traditional stories.