Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales

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She wrote a fairly scholarly introduction to it, acknowledging colonial bias, etc, etc, and commenting on the content. Angela se apodera de la voz masculina de los cuentos y los arranca de la misoginia misma para retrotraerlos a sus orígenes, a aquellas épocas en las que los contaban «Mamá ganso» o la abuela de nuestra bisabuela mientras hilaba por la noche al lado del fuego. I’m… probably going to read that again before the book club meeting to see if I want to discuss anything from that angle. The main characters in each chapter are usually female and find themselves in situations good, bad and ugly, not often receiving the idyllic Disney princess ending. Instead, we have pretty maids and old crones; crafty women and bad girls; enchantresses and midwives; rascal aunts and odd sisters.

La edición es preciosa, con esas ilustraciones tan originales que tiene, además de los extras (apéndices donde se cuenta el origen de cada cuento, un prólogo maravilloso que nos habla de los cuentos de hadas en general y el papel de la mujer en ellos. El libro además incluye las ilustraciones originales de Corina Sargood, que parecen sombras chinescas y son muy adecuadas a la narración, porque no fijan los personajes a un modelo particular. One of my favourite variations comes from the English story ‘The Three Sillies’ which rounds off the, as you may have guessed from the title, very silly events of the tale by saying ‘and if they don’t live happily for ever after, that’s nothing to do with you or me’.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.

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. If my house were not so far/I’d bring you figs and raisins in a jar’ – from the Iraqi story ‘The Little Red Fish and the Clog of Gold’? After all, one of the most common tropes in this collection is the protagonists solving a problem by asking someone for help, whether that's a family member or a random stranger, and receiving an absurd set of magical instructions to follow.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).