sunopf.blogg.se - Burning Your Boats by Angela Carter

' Mother love, which winds about these daughters like a shroud.' - 'Ashputtle or The Mother's Ghost'.

' Upon its pelt bore the imprint of the bars behind which it lived.' - 'Lizzie's Tiger'.

' Today the sun will not irradiate the heroes of the dark spectacle to which accident and disharmony combined to invite us.' - 'The Executioner's Beautiful Daughter'.

In its programmed interstices, monstrous passions bloom.' - 'A Souvenir of Japan'

' But repression does not necessarily give birth only to severe beauties.

Below are some of my favourite sentences/phrases of the collection: One topic rolls into the next so gracefully that it seems the two always belonged together. The thing is that Carter's writings style is seamless. The other day I wrote a short post about a passage from one of her stories in which she, through her writing style, smoothly moves from talking about forests and woods to the human mind, with some talk of labyrinths and mazes along the way. However, it is within these descriptions that Carter puts a lot of the atmosphere and characterization. At times this can be off-putting and you're in danger of skipping over her descriptions.

At times her writing is very word-y, there just seems to be so much she wants to describe. Written by anyone else, her stories wouldn't have any effect. You don't instantly recognize it, but then you weave your way between the chairs and you remember to move your foot before it hits the edge of the couch, or you rest your hand on the table edge, worn of by your frequent touch, and it feels natural.Ī large part of this is Carter's writing style. The only way I can explain it is by comparing her writing to when you return to a house you once used to live or spent a summer holiday. There is that mix between the absurd, the fantastical and the intensely human, that allows you to recognize yourself in her characters even when you're completely alienated by them. This makes all of her stories fascinating and I found myself completely entranced with almost all of them. The great thing about this collection is that every single story is infused with something truly Carterian. Carter doesn't shy away from pointing out the more disturbing aspects of fairy tales or of highlighting aspects of humanity we otherwise try to hide from sight. The editors went through all of Carter's short story collections and chose 42 stories for this volume. Rather than being a "genuine" collection, it is a kind of 'biggest hits' compilation, chronically ordered.