Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales

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Por ejemplo, varios de ellos recuerdan tanto a Piel de asno como a La Cenicienta, hay una especie de versión del cuento de los cisnes que eran príncipes hechizados a los que su hermana tenía que desencantar, y hay uno sobre una leona del que aparecen tres o cuatro versiones diferentes en este libro. It might be more accurate to consider ‘Sermerssuaq’ as less of a fairy tale, and more of a description of a character whose spirit encapsulates the rest of the collection. 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. I think it's a stretch to imagine that trope is about teaching children to ask for help when the lesson that you shouldn't abuse your children, even if you are not their biological parent, is so much more obvious.

La apología de la violencia y del maltrato aquí es bestial, pero está tan normalizada y queda tan WTF que hasta te ríes.

A chest of riches' TLS 'Trumps Grimm, with a world-wide selection of savage and funny stories' Observer 'A spicy collection of folk stories' Independent on Sunday 'A marvellous new anthology' TES 'A superb (and beautifully produced) anthology' Irish Times 'A winner, full of various peoples, wicked, funny and bizarre' A.

Un libro muy interesante que contiene una serie de cuentos tradicionales de diferentes partes del mundo (me encantó el detalle de que especificase el país de cada uno).

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. She wrote a fairly scholarly introduction to it, acknowledging colonial bias, etc, etc, and commenting on the content.

Oubliez les gentilles versions de Disney, ici les fées sont plutôt des démons, les morales sont parfois (souvent) douteuses, les contes très intriguant voire, même parfois incompréhensibles et, les personnages tous plus bizarres les uns que les autres. This book is a collection of two shorter volumes, and the first one is strongly biased in favor of European and Western Asian cultures.I could see the roots of Grimm’s Fairytales and Mother Goose in these stories, and there were several stories based around the Cinderella theme, Rumpelstiltskin and elements of Snow White. Several of the stories are written in a local dialect which makes for interesting reading and a serves as a reminder that you are reading a tale from a culture that you are not familiar with. Some are more earnest in their endeavour to convince us of the happy ending than others; the Norwegian story of ‘Tatterhood’ makes a great effort, ending with the phrase ‘if you make haste and run to the king’s palace, I dare say you’ll find there’s still a drop of bridal ale left for you’. Quite a few young ladies forget their shoes nearby a handsome prince, many girls find themselves forced to spin straw into gold (and therefore require some help from a little imp or an old hag), and evil stepmothers are to find everywhere. Other than acting as a concluding statement, can ‘It served the little b***h right, too’ – from the North American story ‘The Good Girl and the Ornery Girl’ – really be thought to be serving the same purpose as ‘Mulberry, mulberry/So ends my story.

Oh, a sea scorpion,' laughed the daughter, 'because he would not be crushed so easily when I slept with him.All of the tales center around women, and the stories are organized into little sections, such as 'Clever Women', 'Mothers and Daughters' and of course 'Witches'. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Angela reivindica, Angela exige con la misma fuerza y determinación con la que trabajó en esta recopilación hasta los últimos días de su vida, ingresada en el hospital.