Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales

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The only exception is the set of short Inuit stories scattered throughout, which have such a distinct and unique voice that their independent heritage is quite obvious. Es una recopilación de cuentos populares de diversas partes del mundo, principalmente de fuera de Europa, porque los de aquí ya nos los conocemos de sobra. I read this book years back, before the recent craze for fairy tales began, and remember thinking that it was true to the original form, fairy tales were never intended to be a bedtime story, unless we parents meant our children to have horrible nightmares. La apología de la violencia y del maltrato aquí es bestial, pero está tan normalizada y queda tan WTF que hasta te ríes.

Some of these are extremely obvious, like the cautionary tale about incest, but because so many of the lessons applied to the villain and not the hero, it took me a little bit to notice how resoundingly this body of culture condemns the abuse of stepchildren. Another interesting observation is that, unlike most folktale collections I've read, these stories differ substantially in dialect. 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). Instead, we have pretty maids and old crones; crafty women and bad girls; enchantresses and midwives; rascal aunts and odd sisters. Fairy tales are such a fun way to tell a story: they’ve been evolving so long, so they’re flexible, and they’re so familiar that when you make a change, it’s obvious what that change was and what you want to highlight.

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'. Oh, a sea scorpion,' laughed the daughter, 'because he would not be crushed so easily when I slept with him.

It is lovely to have the new edition but it would be nice if the information about the book made it clear that it is a re-issue. Mujeres que se ayudan unas a otras, aunque a veces también se enfrentan entre ellas (madrastras sí hay, y muchas, como en esas versiones de distintos países de Blancanieves, Cenicienta, Bella Durmiente). The most interesting ones are those that make some bold, baffling, and just weird aesthetic turn, like having Cinderella conceal her beauty under a head of mangy skins, or when a cursed wife gives birth to a hideous baby riding a goat and waving a wooden spoon. Some were written in slang and in dialect, which made them a little harder to get through (although this wasn’t a problem). It boasts, amongst other more explicit things which I was not entirely sure I could include in this piece, the strength and size of its titular character and ends with the phrase ‘ Aja, and she was the mother of nine children, too!

Apparently not; there must be a dozen versions of Cinderella, and a fair number of the other tales are also variants of each other. The book is a collection of stories from all over the world, all of which based around a female character. Muchos se los he narrado a mi hijo, adaptándolos un poco a su edad sobre todo por el lenguaje, y me pide «otro» y «otro» mientras me pregunta «y qué pasó» «y qué pasó». Si te gustan los cuentos de hadas pero quieres una versión más oscura y que te de que pensar (sin el típico final " felices para simepre") lo recomiendo mucho.

This book is a collection of two shorter volumes, and the first one is strongly biased in favor of European and Western Asian cultures. She was there at the same time as Roland Barthes, who published his experiences in Empire of Signs (1970). Hay para todos los gustos: tildes que faltan, cambio de género de personajes de un párrafo a otro, palabras omitidas (ejemplo: "cogió la y se la dio a su hermano"). But that still leaves a pretty huge selection, and you would think, for instance, that a curator might include a few examples of the Cinderella story and leave out the rest.It is definitely a "that's so random" quality that I like about them, the sense that the palette of things that can happen is so much wider relative to the familiar tropes of the form than in other genres. I think this is a good book to keep close to bed, in case you don't really feel like reading anything too long or engaging.