Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales

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You would expect a collection like this to have a certain amount of filtering or bias, and they definitely do.

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The only exception is the set of short Inuit stories scattered throughout, which have such a distinct and unique voice that their independent heritage is quite obvious. 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). The stories, collected from all over the world, happen in times where monsters, ghouls, and fairies rule the world; animals talk; and every beautiful girl marries a prince. 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.In one instance, Beauty, the story's heroine, is described as removing the petals from a white rose as her father gambles her away; this is a seeming representation of the stripping away of the false layers of her personality to find her true identity, an image that finds a mirror in the story's fantastical conclusion. Nothing, for her, was outside the pale: she wanted to know about everything and everyone, and every place and every word. A magnificent collection, which manages to effectively capture the 'voice' of the various places the tales are gathered from. However even though I do love fairy tales I have found this to be quite a slog, it has taken me ages to finish and it's only because I don't like to give up on a book that I managed to complete it. Her second husband kills the wolf, who dies and looks exactly the same as he had when he disappeared; this makes her cry and her husband beats her.

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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. Muchos de ellos pueden recordar a los cuentos tradicionales actuales, pero están contado en una versión mucho más realista y oscura, en muchos casos incluso macabra.In confession I must disclose that for me the tales ranged from, 'I can't follow this' to 'I'm following this but WTF? 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). Children are roasted in oven and fed into their own unsuspecting fathers by, normally, their stepmothers.

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Si bien los detalles varían, la trama es la misma: una mujer que se transforma en leona pero que acude a ver a su hija, que sigue siendo humana.Ce recueil de contes n’est malheureusement pas traduit en français et le niveau d’anglais est élevé.