Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales

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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. I’m… probably going to read that again before the book club meeting to see if I want to discuss anything from that angle. A girl goes to visit her grandmother, but encounters a werewolf on the way, whose paw she cuts off with a knife. Las ilustraciones son muy bonitas, originales, y además le dan un toque especial al libro en su conjunto.

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The book left me wanting more… I wanted to read about the origins of these stories and why the details changed form region to region. Figaro himself finds love with the young woman's cat, and the two cats arrange the fortunes of both themselves and the young man and woman by arranging to trip the old man so that he will fall to his death. Un libro muy interesante que contiene una serie de cuentos tradicionales de diferentes partes del mundo (me encantó el detalle de que especificase el país de cada uno).Themes of female identity are explored in the "Beauty and the Beast" stories such as "The Tiger's Bride". 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. 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. Ce recueil de contes n’est malheureusement pas traduit en français et le niveau d’anglais est élevé.

Bad-good girls, beasts, rogues and other creatures: Angela

This is shown in "The Bloody Chamber" when the narrator is unable to clean the blood from what seems to be a normal key in a semi-realistic setting. Some were written in slang and in dialect, which made them a little harder to get through (although this wasn’t a problem). The 1984 film The Company of Wolves by Neil Jordan was based upon the werewolf stories in this collection, in particular the Little Red Riding Hood analogue "The Company of Wolves".She was there at the same time as Roland Barthes, who published his experiences in Empire of Signs (1970). Punk band Daisy Chainsaw adapted the story of "The Lady of the House of Love" for their 1992 music video for "Hope Your Dreams Come True" (from the EP of the same name and also later the album Eleventeen). Si te gustan los cuentos de hadas pero quieres una versión más oscura y que te de que pensar (sin el típico final " felices para simepre") lo recomiendo mucho.