Burning Your Boats by Angela Carter5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Penetrating to the Heart of the Forest, a brother and sister are nudged into exploring the a dark forest and its hidden fruit tree. The setting, itself, becomes a character. In The Executioners Daughter, an executioner is told to execute his only son. Her ability to write fantastical tableaus is showcased. Could he live without her? In the section called Fireworks Nine Profane Pieces from 1974, Carters work begins an ethereal exploration on of the psyche in achingly beautiful prose. The Man Who Loved the Double Bass tells the story of a musician in madly love with his instrument. They begin with her early works, from 1962-6. He says, these stories are also a treasure, to savour and to hoard. It is the closest to gushing the man has ever come. Her stories are adult fairy tales lush, penetrating, uninhibited and dark.Īn introduction by Salman Rushdie sets the perfect tone for the reading ahead. Simply stated, Angela Carter has taken icons and myths we were all raised with and given them back to us in a form we know and trust. Angela said, 'Well, I'm basically trying to find out what certain configurations of imagery in our society, in our culture, really stand for, what they mean, underneath the kind of semireligious coating that makes people not particularly want to interfere with them.' ![]() Anna Katsavos asked Angela Carter what she meant by that. In 'Notes From the Front Line', Carter said that she was not in the remythologizing business but in the demythologizing business. ![]()
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