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Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales

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En estos cuentos aparecen pocas hadas pero sí hay mujeres fuertes, inteligentes, pícaras, habilidosas que nos permiten respirar tranquilas mientras los leemos pues sabemos que lograrán salir adelante. If you want to marry a prince, you need to be one of four things: a) pretty, b) smart, c) pretty and smart, or d) grown from a plant. The Icelandic stories tended to involve the women making themselves appear as men with penises made out of bits of seal, and there were quite a few stories involving jealous step mothers and step fathers, and cannibalism… These are proper folk fairy stories that have been handed down from generation to generation.

Y son absurdos, como suelen ser los cuentos, en el sentido de que a un personaje le dicen X y, por extraño que suene, el personaje se lo cree a pies juntillas. Whereupon the old woman proceeded to pull sea scorpions out of her vagina, one after another, until she fell over dead. While a large portion of these fairy-tales are extremely funny and silly, there's also a lingering sense of the macabre hiding between these pages. Ce recueil de contes n’est malheureusement pas traduit en français et le niveau d’anglais est élevé. Instead, we have pretty maids and old crones; crafty women and bad girls; enchantresses and midwives; rascal aunts and odd sisters.

No obstante, me gustó más otro libro que leí de la autora el año pasado, La cámara sangrienta, que sí tenía relatos originales escritos por ella, retellings siniestros. Trumps Grimm, with a world-wide selection of savage and funny stories' Observer --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. Pero tengo que decir algo negativo, muy negativo: he encontrado faltas de ortografía en casi todas las páginas.

I have to admit I ignored the saying don't judge a book by its cover, But this book is so beautful I had to get it! Historias útiles para nosotras en las que somos las protagonistas, a veces virtuosas, a veces malvadas, a veces picaronas, a veces brujas, a veces mujeres-leona, a veces mujeres-mortero. You would expect a collection like this to have a certain amount of filtering or bias, and they definitely do. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed most of the stories – they were interesting, funny and weird, so far so good.

They are not always attractive or moral, but they are certainly memorable, and you can almost always understand why the stories about them have been passed down through so many generations. A few mothers turn into lions and want to eat their children, brothers try to rape their sisters, and jealous stepmothers put their children into the oven and serve them as dinner to their fathers. My only issue was that there were many stories that I felt like I had read over and over again by the time I had finished the book. Muchos de ellos pueden recordar a los cuentos tradicionales actuales, pero están contado en una versión mucho más realista y oscura, en muchos casos incluso macabra. A few of the stories are incredibly short, as in a mere few lines, but the preservation of any traditional tale, no matter how brief, is a thing to be celebrated.

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