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The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories

de Angela Carter
idioma: inglês
Editor: Vintage Publishing, julho de 1995 ‧
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In The Bloody Chamber , Carter's famous collection of deeply unsettling stories inspired by fairy tales, a Beauty is turned into a Beast and Little Red Riding's grandmother is stoned to death as a witch; a young music student is swept off her feet in Paris by a middle-aged aristocrat and transported to his ancestral abode to re-enact the story of Bluebeard against a sumptuous fin de siècle background; a British soldier on a cycling holiday in Transylvania in the summer of 1914 finds himself the guest of an alluring female vampire. By contrast, in Wise Children, Carter's last novel), the comic, the bawdy and the life-enhancing prevail. An irrepressible elderly lady recalls the many colourful decades she and her sister spent as vaudeville performers - a tale as full of twins and mistaken identities as any plot of Shake- speare's. The early collection, Fireworks , reveals Carter taking her first forays into the fantastic writing that was to become her unforgettable legacy. The Everyman's Library omnibus gathers the best of Angela Carter in one astonishing volume.

Fairy tales reimagined for feminist times.' - Grazia

'She was, among other things, a quirky, original, and baroque stylist, a trait especially marked in The Bloody Chamber - her vocabulary a mix of finely tuned phrase, luscious adjective, witty aphorism, and hearty, up-theirs vulgarity.' - Margaret Atwood, Observer

'Magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality.' - Ian McEwan

'She can glide from ancient to modern, from darkness to luminosity, from depravity to comedy without any hint of strain and without losing the elusive power of the original tales.' - The Times

'The Bloody Chamber is such an important book to me. Angela Carter, for me, is still the one who said: 'You see these fairy stories, these things that are sitting at the back of the nursery shelves? Actually, each one of them is a loaded gun. Each of them is a bomb. Watch: if you turn it right it will blow up.' And we all went: 'Oh my gosh, she's right-you can blow things up with these!' -- Neil Gaiman, Daily Telegraph

The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories

de Angela Carter

Propriedade Descrição
ISBN: 9780099588115
Editor: Vintage Publishing
Data de Lançamento: julho de 1995
Idioma: Inglês
Dimensões: 128 x 200 x 9 mm
Encadernação: Capa mole
Páginas: 176
Tipo de produto: Livro
Classificação Temática: Livros em Inglês > Literatura > Romance
Livros em Inglês > Literatura > Ficção
EAN: 9780099588115
Idade Mínima Recomendada: Não aplicável

SOBRE O AUTOR

Angela Carter

Angela Carter nasceu em 1940 e foi professora de Literatura Inglesa na universidade de Bristol. Viveu dois anos no Japão e longos períodos, onde trabalhou exaustivamente, nos Estados Unidos e na Austrália. Escreveu romances, contos e não-ficção, poesia, teatro e literatura infantil. Foi também editora, tradutora e adaptou dois dos seus livros ao cinema. Colaborava regularmente com os jornais The Independent, New Statesman e The Guardian. É considerada uma das maiores autoras do século XX.. Morreu em 1992.

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