Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales

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The width of cultures means that there are all styles of story - long, short, gore, spiritual, teaching tales and entertainment. She adapted a number of her short stories for radio and wrote two original radio dramas on Richard Dadd and Ronald Firbank.

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. 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. While I am not sure if I would use the word feminist to describe the collection, the tales are mostly woman centered, with women as heroines or as a major role. The Palestinian-Arab story of ‘Tunjur, Tunjur’ is far more blasé about the matter, simply leaving us with the phrase ‘this is my tale, I’ve told it, and in your hands, I leave it’. 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.I’m… probably going to read that again before the book club meeting to see if I want to discuss anything from that angle. Como en toda recopilación hay historias my interesantes y otras no tanto, pero el conjunto es muy bueno y permite conocer más sobre otras culturas. Mujeres que se tienen a sí mismas y que no necesitan príncipes azules que las rescaten aunque a veces sí aparezcan «comadres» o animales mágicos que les echan una mano. 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. Another interesting observation is that, unlike most folktale collections I've read, these stories differ substantially in dialect.

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’. On the one hand it's a great book to read alongside other books as it is full of short stories so you can just pick it up and read a quick story and it won't disturb whatever else your reading. So many cultures are represented and united in this gorgeous book - and only a few tales were known to me beforehand. Some of the fairytales are great, some are local versions of well known fairytales and some are plainly and simply strange.

This stunning collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales and hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories from countries all around the world- from the Arctic to Asia – and no dippy princesses or soppy fairies. Trasmiten lecciones de todo tipo desde mensajes feministas hasta temas familiares y relacionados con la salud mental. There are lengthy introductions, afterwords, and notes explaining why the stories are selected and where they are obtained from.

i feel like an important thing to know about me is that my parents' copy of this book introduced me to sex at seven-ish years old, by way of stories abt a woman bringing carved blubber to life by rubbing it on her genitals and a mother-in-law seducing her daughter-in-law with her seal bone strap-on ? 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. I think I'm just not a lover of short stories, I much prefer a long story that I can sink my teeth into, get more invested into the characters and something that is a bit more of a page turner. 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.

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. I have to admit I ignored the saying don't judge a book by its cover, But this book is so beautful I had to get it! 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. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. While it might be tempting to make sweeping conclusions about what these phrases mean or what they aim to do, the more of the stories you read, the more you come to realise that this simply isn’t possible.