Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales

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The illustrations in this book are beautiful and sinister as well; and this is, overall, a stunning and remarkable collection of fairy-tales. Instead, we have pretty maids and old crones; crafty women and bad girls; enchantresses and midwives; rascal aunts and odd sisters. Son muchos relatos y sin duda se pasa un muy buen rato, aunque a veces la pluma sea un poco compleja y emplee, de vez en cuando, lenguaje soez. I found it fascinating to trace the origin and different versions of well-known tales, such as Cinderella. She wrote about her experiences there in articles for New Society and a collection of short stories, Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces (1974), and evidence of her experiences in Japan can also be seen in The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972).

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. This stunning 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.Todo un imaginario que Angela rescata desde los inuit hasta Japón pasando por Inglaterra, Birmania o Sudán. Que yo y otras muchas mujeres vayamos buscando heroínas de cuentos de hadas en los libros es otra versión del mismo proceso: deseo validar mi reivindicación a poseer una parte equitativa del futuro, y expreso para ello la exigencia de que me concedan la parte del pasado que me corresponde». The trade-off for that of course is that few of the stories can amount to more than that weirdness, but given their length that's probably fine.

It suggests that a theory of storytelling focused on protagonists solving problems might be missing the possibility that villains are often the central figure of interest in the stories. Bien, ocurre como siempre en los libros de relatos: unos gustan mucho, otros un poco menos y alguno nada de nada. Hay para todos los gustos: tildes que faltan, cambio de género de personajes de un párrafo a otro, palabras omitidas (ejemplo: "cogió la y se la dio a su hermano"). If my house were not so far/I’d bring you figs and raisins in a jar’ – from the Iraqi story ‘The Little Red Fish and the Clog of Gold’? Cuentos de hadas protagonizados por mujeres (tontas, listas, sagaces, niñas, jóvenes, viejas, reinas, princesas, sirvientas y muchas más) y divididos por tema, de todas partes del mundo (ojo en particular con los cuentos inuit, muy rupturistas en cuanto a temas de género).Some were written in slang and in dialect, which made them a little harder to get through (although this wasn’t a problem). This book is a collection of two shorter volumes, and the first one is strongly biased in favor of European and Western Asian cultures. You would expect a collection like this to have a certain amount of filtering or bias, and they definitely do. I read this book years back, before the recent craze for fairy tales began, and remember thinking that it was true to the original form, fairy tales were never intended to be a bedtime story, unless we parents meant our children to have horrible nightmares.

Cuando vi que Impedimenta había publicado este libro poco antes de las pasadas navidades me entró por los ojos en seguida. She was actively involved in both film adaptations, her screenplays are published in the collected dramatic writings, The Curious Room, together with her radio scripts, a libretto for an opera of Virginia Wolf's Orlando, an unproduced screenplay entitled The Christchurch Murders (based on the same true story as Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures) and other works. Historias útiles para nosotras en las que somos las protagonistas, a veces virtuosas, a veces malvadas, a veces picaronas, a veces brujas, a veces mujeres-leona, a veces mujeres-mortero. She wrote a fairly scholarly introduction to it, acknowledging colonial bias, etc, etc, and commenting on the content.No obstante, me gustó más otro libro que leí de la autora el año pasado, La cámara sangrienta, que sí tenía relatos originales escritos por ella, retellings siniestros. La apología de la violencia y del maltrato aquí es bestial, pero está tan normalizada y queda tan WTF que hasta te ríes. On the one hand it's a great book to read alongside other books as it is full of short stories so you can just pick it up and read a quick story and it won't disturb whatever else your reading. The most interesting ones are those that make some bold, baffling, and just weird aesthetic turn, like having Cinderella conceal her beauty under a head of mangy skins, or when a cursed wife gives birth to a hideous baby riding a goat and waving a wooden spoon.