A reissue of a collection of short stories first published ten years ago. They include "The Company of Wolves", on which the prize-winning film of the same name was based. Angela Carter is the author of "Nights at the Circus" and "The Magic Toyshop". --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Wikipedia: Born Angela Olive Stalker in Eastbourne, in 1940, Carter was evacuated as a child to live in Yorkshire with her maternal grandmother. As a teenager she battled anorexia. She began work as a journalist on the Croydon Advertiser, following in the footsteps of her father. Carter attended the University of Bristol where she studied English literature.
She married twice, first in 1960 to Paul Carter. They divorced after twelve years. In 1969 Angela Carter used the proceeds of her Somerset Maugham Award to leave her husband and relocate for two years to Tokyo, Japan, where she claims in Nothing Sacred (1982) that she "learnt what it is to be a woman and became radicalised." She wrote about her experiences there in articles for New Society and a collection of short stories, Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces (1974), and evidence of her experiences in Japan can also be seen in The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972). She was there at the same time as Roland Barthes, who published his experiences in Empire of Signs (1970).
She then explored the United States, Asia, and Europe, helped by her fluency in French and German. She spent much of the late 1970s and 1980s as a writer in residence at universities, including the University of Sheffield, Brown University, the University of Adelaide, and the University of East Anglia. In 1977 Carter married Mark Pearce, with whom she had one son.
As well as being a prolific writer of fiction, Carter contributed many articles to The Guardian, The Independent and New Statesman, collected in Shaking a Leg. She adapted a number of her short stories for radio and wrote two original radio dramas on Richard Dadd and Ronald Firbank. Two of her fictions have been adapted for the silver screen: The Company of Wolves (1984) and The Magic Toyshop (1987). She was actively involved in both film adaptations, her screenplays are published in the collected dramatic writings, The Curious Room, together with her radio scripts, a libretto for an opera of Virginia Wolf's Orlando, an unproduced screenplay entitled The Christchurch Murders (based on the same true story as Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures) and other works. These neglected works, as well as her controversial television documentary, The Holy Family Album, are discussed in Charlotte Crofts' book, Anagrams of Desire (2003).
At the time of her death, Carter was embarking on a sequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre based on the later life of Jane's stepdaughter, Adèle Varens. However, only a synopsis survives.
Her novel Nights at the Circus won the 1984 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for literature.
Angela Carter died aged 51 in 1992 at her home in London after developing lung cancer. Her obituary published in The Observer said, "She was the opposite of parochial. Nothing, for her, was outside the pale: she wanted to know about everything and everyone, and every place and every word. She relished life and language hugely, and reveled in the diverse."
单单从履历表上来看,这位名叫安吉拉•卡特的英国女人——在国内读者中间还很陌生的名字——已经可以被看做是一位“现象级”的作家了。尽管在51岁时便罹患癌症早早辞世,但通过她完成的九部长篇和四十余篇短篇故事,我们分明可以看到一个特立独行的“文本世界”正在构建。它...
评分 评分《染血之室与其他故事》是卡特于1979年发表的短篇故事集,收录了包括《染血之室》在内的十二篇异色故事。这些故事共同的特点,是同样建立于对经典故事“重写”的基础之上。基于颠覆的架构,书写“本该如此”的真实。 《染血之室》的故事取材自法国民间故事集《...
评分作为黑童话爱好者,对于《染血之室与其他故事》的期待值高到绝对相信它会是满分。同类型作品不算少数,像是把《格林童话》黑色的那一面翻剥出来,就足够精彩。但我想若出自安吉拉·卡特的手笔,加上她精细华美的文字,一定会是比她曾编辑整理的《精怪故事集》更饱满而色彩丰艳...
评分所以里面的意象到底应该用传统童话民谣式的男权心理暗示还是Carter的女性主义解读啊我好纠结!觉得大学能学习中世纪文学还挺酷炫的=_=
评分很失望,很难想象拉什迪会迷上这样一个作家。
评分暂时就看了bloody chamber这一个故事 语言上有难度
评分neat style, erotic imagery, écriture féminine, Carter is successful in transforming the desire.
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