6/10/2023 0 Comments Burning your boats angela carterThere are variations on Lizzie Borden, on the childhood of Edgar Allan Poe and several on Little Red Riding Hood, who gets the better of the Big Bad Wolf in at least two of them (Carter was an ardent but scarcely PC feminist). candidate meets his subject's widow, someone very much like Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard and Britain's immortal pantomime characters get a hilarious going-over for their psychosexual significance. Thus John Ford's Jacobean melodrama 'Tis a Pity She's a Whore resurfaces as the script for a movie directed by a 20th-century namesake a Ph.D. But she also has a ribald, extremely contemporary sense of humor that keeps glancing through the dark mists. She cherishes dark forests, winter sunsets, wolves and werewolves, bloody murder, hunters, the cruel, rich husbands of maidens condemned to death. Carter's favorite themes mingle love and death. These are not at all conventional stories that glimpse moments in contemporary life.They are tales, legends, variations on mythic themes, sparked by writing of great vitality, color and inventiveness, and a deeply macabre imagination. The late Angela Carter, better known as a novelist (Wise Children), wrote stories throughout her all-too-brief career, and they are all here, handsomely and perceptively introduced by Salman Rushdie, who was an old friend.
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