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安吉拉·卡特（Angela Carter,1940-1992年），英国最具独创性的作家之一，书写风格混杂魔幻写实，歌德式，女性主义。曾获得切特南文学节奖，詹姆斯。泰特。布雷克纪念等奖项。
安吉拉·卡特的全部作品集
The Bloody chamber And Other Stories
Published in 1979, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, which received the Cheltenham Festival Literary Prize, retells classic fairy tales. Angela Carter revises Puss-in-Boots and Sleeping Beauty, for example, from an adult, twentieth-century perspective. Her renditions are intended to disturb and titillate her audience, instead of lulling it to sleep. The title story recasts the legend of Bluebeard, the mysterious French nobleman who murders his many wives. The legend, as recorded by the seventeenth-century author Charles Perrault, begins with the marriage of a girl to an eccentric, wealthy man. Called away on business, the newlywed husband leaves his wife the keys to every room and cabinet in the house. This keyring includes one key that she must not use: the one to the room at the end of the great gallery. Of course, she eventually enters the room forbidden to her. In it she finds the corpses of her husband's previous wives, all with their throats cut. Startled, the girl drops the key, which is enchanted and permanently stained by the blood on the floor. From this stain, Bluebeard discovers her disobedience. He raises his scimitar, but just in time, her brothers arrive to slay the murderer.Though it follows the original tale in basic structure, The Bloody Chamber adds details of character and setting that raise issues of sexual awakening and sexual depravity, of the will to live, and of life in hell. In having the young bride be the one to tell her story and in having her courageous mother come to the rescue, moreover, Carter revisits an age-old tale with her feminist viewpoint.
A collection of short stories full of extraordinary people, some of them real - Jean Duval, Baudelaire's black mistress, Edgar Allan Poe and Lizzie Borden. Other characters flow from the author's imagination. She also wrote Nights at the Circus, The Magic Toyshop and Shadow Dance.
American Ghosts and Old World Wonders
American Ghosts and Old World Wonders is a posthumously published anthology of short fiction by Angela Carter. It was first published in the United Kingdom in 1993 by Chatto & Windus Ltd. and contains a collection of nine stories, one half of which deal with American folklore and the other with older myths and fairytales. It is introduced by Susannah Clapp.The book is divided into two parts, the first (concerned with America) consists of Lizzie's Tiger, John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Gun for the Devil and The Merchant of Shadows.Part two (concerned with Europe: the Old World) contains The Ghost Ships, In Pantoland, Ashputtle or The Mother's Ghost, Alice in Prague or The Curious Room and Impressions: The Wrightsman Magdalene.The anthology's contents are also reprinted in the volume Burning Your Boats, which features all of Carter's short fiction.
Burning Your Boats (Short Stories Collection)，本书完整收录安洁拉·卡特创作生涯中的短篇小说。其中包括四册曾独立出版之作品：《烟火》，《染血之室》，《黑色维纳斯》， 《美国鬼魂与旧世界奇观》），另外还收录卡特从未出版单行本之六篇遗珠小说。著名小说家鲁西迪特别作序推荐。 本书四十二篇精彩小说可以看到作者创作上的企图心，题材从童话故事到真人真事皆有，原发表场所从一般流行杂志到学术倾向的伦敦书评，显示卡特不断跨越各种书写，社会分界，像是个游走江湖的说书人，吸引各种社会阶层驻足聆听。 其中《染血之室》，为卡特最著名的代表作，她改写《蓝胡子》、《穿靴猫》、《小红帽》等著名故事，大幅翻转故事的指涉意义。其中《与狼为伴》一篇曾改编成电影。