Some critics have seen Carter as a follower of magic realism yet she is, even more, the natural heiress of a northern Gothic tradition. But, as Salman Rushdie says, ''the best of her. On such disparate subjects as architecture, fashion, zoos, carnivals, tattooing and popular romance. Pieces about other authors and a philosophical study of pornography, ''The Sadeian Woman.'' Her nonfiction collection ''Nothing Sacred'' contains moving memoirs of her childhood and original essays
Among her novels are ''Wise Children,'' a down-to-earth theatrical comedy, and ''The Magic Toyshop,'' a scary contemporary fantasy. ''I collect driftwood and set it up among the pine trees in picturesque attitudes on the edge of the beach and then I strike a picturesque attitude myself beside them as I watch the constantly agitated waves, for here we all strike picturesqueĪttitudes and that is why we are so beautiful.''Īs a writer, Carter could do almost anything. Though she sees her situation as romantic, she is able to step back and look at it ironically: This is so even in ''The Smile of Winter,'' where Carter's unnamed narrator has lost her lover and is living alone by the sea. In spite of this perception - or perhaps because of it - Japan is always portrayed as magical. To look at a samurai, you would not know him for a murderer, or a geisha for a whore.'' I used to turn over in my mind from time to time the question: how far does a pretense of feeling, maintained with absoluteĬonviction, become authentic? This country has elevated hypocrisy to the level of the highest style. This idea seemed to him magnificent, even sublime. ''His dedication was primarily to the idea of himself in love. One morning, we woke to find the house next door reduced to nothing but a heap of sticks and a pile of newspaper neatly tied with string, left out for theįor the narrator, the devotion of her lover appears equally undependable: ''Even buildings one had taken for substantial had a trick of disappearance overnight. As they return home, the narrator meditates on the impermanence, in Japan, of what at first seems solid: The brilliant but ephemeral display, ''opening out like variegated parasols'' over the dark water of a river, is clearly a symbol of their In the first, ''A Souvenir of Japan,'' two lovers,Īn Englishwoman and a young Japanese man, attend a traditional fireworks show. The waves leave torn, translucentįurls of polythene wrapping too tough for even this sea's iron stomach.''Įspecially remarkable among the realistic stories are three set in Japan, where Carter lived in her early 30's, working at many different jobs: at one time, she was a bar hostess.
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Ordinary and even sordid things are transfigured by the intensity of her vision: ''The beach is full of the garbage of the ocean. Fortunately, they have been reprinted in ''Burning Your Boats,'' together with six previouslyĮven in the realistic stories, Carter's world is strange, dangerous and beautiful. During her lifetime, she published four volumes of stories, some of which are now almost impossible to find. Such surprises and reversals are everywhere in the stories of Angela Carter, the fine English writer who died in 1992 ''at the height of her powers,'' as her friend Salman Rushdie says in his introduction to this new collection of My earrings turned back to water and trickled down my shoulders I shrugged the drops off
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''Each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind a nascent patina of shiny hairs. Instead, Beauty is transformed into a tigress by his passionate kisses: N ''The Tiger's Bride,'' Angela Carter's haunting version of ''Beauty and the Beast,'' the heroĭoes not become a handsome prince.
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