![]() ![]() With their feisty heroines and rgiastic mash-up of beasts, shape-shifters and ghouls, her extraordinary tales are the most perfect example of her style, not just for her incomparable prose, but also in the dizzying twists and turns of perception, fantasy and myth.Ĭontroversially influenced by De Sade, she embraced the erotic, explored our deepest and darkest urges, and subverted the roles of hunter and prey, master and mistress so that, instead of male sexuality, it is the female that becomes transgressive and powerful.Īnne. ![]() She re-worked traditional fairy tales from her own unique, literary outsider’s point of view, putting women at the centre of the stories. A young pianist marries a wealthy aristocrat, a Marquis, much older than herself and with three previous wives, all mysteriously deceased.įinding herself alone in the empty castle, with nothing to do but play the piano, she cannot resist entering the one room the Marquis has forbidden to her.Īt the time of writing The Bloody Chamber in the late 1970s, Carter was disaffected by both sides of the feminist debate. The first of five stories to gobble you up.įrom Angela Carter's iconic collection of fairy stories and dramatised by Olivia Hetreed.Īngela Carter's re-telling of the story of Bluebeard. ![]()
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