The bloody chamber by Angela Carter : review
The bloody
chamber
BY Angela
carter
This
book is the one of the two books of
Daphne Lee inspired to write together with a team of good Malaysian writers the book Malaysian
tales remixed and retold (http://zliangas.blogspot.gr/2014/05/malaysian-tales-retold-and-remixed.html)
The
book is like a remix of older mostly
known tales as red riding hood , snow white
in a total of 8 mini stories in a very different way than the original It is noticed by revidewers that the stries here set a new position on the young females , in a rather wining form .carter also noticed that she was a feminist
Unfortunately the language
is very difficult . For example a text of just 70 lines has abt 40 unknown
lemmas . That made me lose abt 30
minutes to identify all these
lemmas and lose finally the text .And ten i had to read the tex t about two times agin to get the meaning of the story
I have found a site
that used relatively easier
language that analyzed each story in brief , ie ca 10 lines per story , as well as a separate page for each story . As I
understood all stories are absolutely not for children . All stories mix devils , aglu wolfs e
It was nice that there was a Greek edition
of the book . The book was out of print wit the publisher suspended operations several years ago. he most impressive , was that a small bookstore could find it and deliver it in just 3 days . NOne of the big chain stores could do anything for it ! The cost of the book is E17
Here are the stories mentioned in both obooks ;
The bloody chamber basd on Blue bird - this is the longest story of the book
Coutrhip of Mt Lyon
Tiger's bride both based on beast and beauty
Puss in boots (same as the original
Erl King (nordic stories )
Snow Child (loosely on snow white )
Were wolf
Group of wolves
Wolf alice These 3 base don redd riding hood
If you are interested in extensive revew or analysis on this book find here http://www.gradesaver.com/the-bloody-chamber/
The only i can comment oin this book , mostly from the Greek edition is hat the language is very picturesque into an impressive text
Here are the stories mentioned in both obooks ;
The bloody chamber basd on Blue bird - this is the longest story of the book
Coutrhip of Mt Lyon
Tiger's bride both based on beast and beauty
Puss in boots (same as the original
Erl King (nordic stories )
Snow Child (loosely on snow white )
Were wolf
Group of wolves
Wolf alice These 3 base don redd riding hood
If you are interested in extensive revew or analysis on this book find here http://www.gradesaver.com/the-bloody-chamber/
The only i can comment oin this book , mostly from the Greek edition is hat the language is very picturesque into an impressive text
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