Burning Boat

Angela Carter, a descendant of the psychoanalytic school of novelists and a great feminist dreamer, writes a complete collection of short stories with the most enchanting poetic talent and brilliant imagination of the 20th century. It resurrects the grotesque archetypes of the collective unconscious, embroidering a fantastical map of ancient memories and hidden desires. Forty-two stories, forty-two journeys through the inverted dreamscape of patriarchal culture.
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Angela Carter is a giant in 20th-century literature, hailed as a literary godmother by a host of renowned writers, including Rushdie, McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Atwood. The Burning Ships is a complete collection of her short stories, comprising 42 pieces from four previously published collections: Fireworks, The Bloody Chamber, Black Venus, and American Ghosts and Old World Wonders, as well as six unpublished works.
Most of these short stories are based on myths, folk tales, and literary classics. The literary witch Carter uses the principles of psychoanalysis to look through and dismantle these cultural heritages of all mankind, implanting feminist viewpoints into the consciousness elements of the old world, reinstalling the myths and legends of the new world, and constructing a "myth reconstruction project" that competes with the myth and legend system of the entire patriarchal culture. It has become a great classic of fantasy literature and feminism, and has produced a wide and far-reaching social impact.
Some commentators say Angela Carter has transformed the Hollywood landscape by at least one-tenth. This is true. The new version of "Beauty and the Beast" not only pays homage to Carter in its plot and details, but even features the same actress who played the witch in the documentary "Angela Carter." Throughout "The Burning Ship," the brilliant writing and thrilling story unfold like a grand illusion, performing a forty-two-layered "Inception" of patriarchal culture.
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I repeat, Angela Carter is a great writer. Many of her colleagues and devoted readers understand her rarity, a true unique presence on the planet. She deserves to be placed at the very center of the literature of our time. Her most remarkable works are her short story collections.
- Rushdie's unique style has created those exquisite works with exquisite sensual tones, those dreams, myths, fairy tales, metamorphosis, chaotic subconscious, epic journeys, and hymns of sex that are both extremely passionate and extremely dark.
—Ian McEwan If you want to recreate the birth of Angela Carter's work in her style, you need to gather a whole troupe of gods and ghosts around her typewriter. Oscar Wilde must be there, and Poe too, and Bram Stoker, and Perrault, and Mary Shelley, and even McCullers, and a host of noisy old ladies who love to gossip.
—Margaret Atwood I read Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber when I was seventeen. Its mixture of feminism, sex, and literary magic was the most delicious thing I had ever tasted. It changed my life.
"The Bloody Chamber" is such an important book. Angela Carter is an incredible person to me. She said, "You see those fairy tales, those books standing on the nursery shelf? Every one of them is actually a loaded gun. Every one of them is a bomb. Look out! If you open them just right, they go off." And we all went, "Oh my God, she's right, you can shoot them!"
—Neil Gaiman What a fireworks display! It's as if there's nothing else beneath the covers. Gothic, strange, perverse, wonderful... and the language is so rich and gorgeous, like Edgar Allan Poe and Flannery O'Connor teaming up to write Scheherazade, the Sultan's bride, in "The Arabian Nights."
——Mirabella
When you encounter Angela Carter's wonder and magical novel, you will inevitably come to one conclusion: it is bound to be circulated, read and worshipped.
—The Times Literary Supplement

2019-06-01

南京大学出版社

Nanjing University Press·Watchman

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9787305204784