Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales

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a b Nate Jones. "Disappointed With the Sexless Into the Woods? Watch The Company of Wolves Instead". Vulture . Retrieved 30 May 2020. Una de las lástimas de este libro es que son tantas y tantas historias (no las he contado, pero habrá 300 o más), que no se pueden asimilar todas y la mayoría acaban siendo olvidadas. Es cierto, ya he olvidado algunas o cómo acababan. Este libro es tan raro y sorprendente que me encantó. 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. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Staff, Wales, UK: Trinity CM, archived from the original on 28 September 2007 , retrieved 29 June 2007 .

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The Courtship of Mr Lyon" originally appeared in the British version of Vogue. [5] It was revised for this collection. [6] Así que hay historias de África, de Asia, de América... Y son absurdos, como suelen ser los cuentos, en el sentido de que a un personaje le dicen X y, por extraño que suene, el personaje se lo cree a pies juntillas. No sé, le dicen que su casa está hechizada y que tiene que desollar a su gato y comerse la piel para desencantarla, y se lo cree. Y lo hace. Y sí, hay sangre en varios de los cuentos, y también sexo a veces. La apología de la violencia y del maltrato aquí es bestial, pero está tan normalizada y queda tan WTF que hasta te ríes. A few of the stories are incredibly short, as in a mere few lines, but the preservation of any traditional tale, no matter how brief, is a thing to be celebrated.The stories are selected with care. There are lengthy introductions, afterwords, and notes explaining why the stories are selected and where they are obtained from. To be honest, these parts are too English 101 for me so I didn't really pay attention. Pour ceux qui se sentent capable de lire ce livre, je ne peux que vous le recommander. Ces contes de fées recueillis tout autour du monde n’ont de rapport avec les fées que le nom. 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.

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I normally love short stories, and fairy tales, but I struggled a little with this one. The book is a collection of stories from all over the world, all of which based around a female character. The stories are grouped into the following: In confession I must disclose that for me the tales ranged from, 'I can't follow this' to 'I'm following this but WTF?' to 'GREAT'

The chapters are made of headings in which similar stories are grouped. For example, chapter one titled Brave, Bold and Wilful talks about people who are like that. Chapter 11, titled Mothers and Daughters, explores their relationships. Has roots in various folktales, most apparently The Snow-child; The Snow, the Crow, and the Blood; and also tales such as Snegurochka and an obscure variant of Snow White. [3] :xvi) Puss-in-Boots" was intended for a 1979 anthology The Straw and the Gold, edited by Emma Tennant, but the anthology was never published. [5] The collection contains ten stories: "The Bloody Chamber", "The Courtship of Mr Lyon", "The Tiger's Bride", "Puss-in-Boots", "The Erl-King", "The Snow Child", "The Lady of the House of Love", "The Werewolf", "The Company of Wolves" and "Wolf-Alice". Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed most of the stories – they were interesting, funny and weird, so far so good. The Icelandic stories tended to involve the women making themselves appear as men with penises made out of bits of seal, and there were quite a few stories involving jealous step mothers and step fathers, and cannibalism… These are proper folk fairy stories that have been handed down from generation to generation.

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Las ilustraciones son muy bonitas, originales, y además le dan un toque especial al libro en su conjunto.Lo que me ha resultado curioso es que hay muchos cuentos que se parecen. 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. Si bien los detalles varían, la trama es la misma: una mujer que se transforma en leona pero que acude a ver a su hija, que sigue siendo humana. Some of the fairytales are great, some are local versions of well known fairytales and some are plainly and simply strange.