Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 04/03/2021
ISBN: 9781784875893
Length: 208 Pages
Dimensions: 178mm x 13mm x 129mm
Weight: 154g
RRP: £9.99
MOST LOVED. MOST RED. Ten must-read modern classics.
'Nursery fears made flesh and sinew; earliest and most archaic of fears, fear of devourment.'
We grow up on fairy tales but it is only later we realise what we have been fed. Angela Carter saw the power of these dark stories – stories in which objects betray, children threaten, men turn into animals and women are unsafe. Erotic, subversive, ancient, modern: the tales in this book pulse with a vivid, radical imagination.
Turn the key, enter the chamber. Carter untwists our old tales and offers them up with sensuality, depravity, humour – and a mirror held up to ourselves.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY LAURA DOCKRILL
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 04/03/2021
ISBN: 9781784875893
Length: 208 Pages
Dimensions: 178mm x 13mm x 129mm
Weight: 154g
RRP: £9.99
Fairy tales reimagined for feminist times
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
Magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality
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 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!’