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El diabólico doctor Hoffman se ha propuesto librar una guerra sin cuartel contra las estructuras de la razón, y liberar así definitivamente a los seres humanos de las cadenas del principio de realidad. El campo de batalla de esta guerra sera las mentes y corazones de hombres y mujeres. En las ciudades pobladas de espejismos nada es lo que parece, y la vida cotidiana se ha convertido en un complejo laberinto donde caben todas las posibilidades. Solo Desiderio, que vive en la ciudad desde los comienzos de la guerra, puede detener al doctor Hoffman.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY AUDREY NIFFENEGGERLove is Angela Carters fifth novel and was first published in 1971. This revised edition has lost none of Angela Carters haunting power to evoke the ebb of the 1960s, and includes an afterword which describes the progress of the survivors into the anguish of middle age.

Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffmans mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctors daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman made of glass, seems only to appear to him in his dreams.

Carter's heady first novel introduces one of her most enigmatic characters. Honeybuzzard spends his nights scavenging the contents of abandoned buildings and his days seducing and tormenting lovers, enemies, and friends. He and his best friend Morris scoour the backstreets of London, leaving behind a trail of detruction in the broken hearts and dashed hopes of those they love, manipulate, and ultimately discard.

A colección de relatos Venus Negra apareceu por vez primeira en Gran Bretaña en 1985 e reeditouse dous anos despois nos Estados Unidos baixo o título de Santos e Descoñecidos. Os contos son froito da imaxinacion revisionista de Carter que ofrece unha serie de retratos e versions corrixidas da vida de protagonistas ben coñecidos e ata certo punto institucionalizados na cultura occidental. A relacion de Edgar Allan Poe coa sua nai, a sexualidade de Puck en O Soño dunha noite de Veran, ou a violencia de Lizzie Borden, a personaxe dun coñecido versiño infantil ingles, convertense da man de Carter en temas obxecto dunha provocativa reescritura. No conto que da titulo ao volume, Carter fai que o famoso poeta Baudelaire apareza descrito desde a perspectiva da sua amante Jeanne Duval, atacando o estereotipo do papel asignado a muller na arte universal como mera fonte de inspiracion.

'Sexuality is power' - so says the Marquis de Sade, philosopher and pornographer extraordinaire. His virtuous Justine keeps to the rules laid down by men, her reward rape and humiliation; his Juliette, Justine's triumphantly monstrous antithesis, viciously exploits her sexuality. In a world where all tenderness is false, all beds are minefields. But now Sade has met his match. With invention and genius, Angela Carter takes on these outrageous figments of his extreme imagination, and transforms them into symbols of our time - the Hollywood sex goddesses, mothers and daughters, pornography, even the sacred shrines of sex and marriage lie devastatingly exposed before our eyes. Angela Carter delves into the viscera of our distorted sexuality and reveals a dazzling vision of love which admits neither of conqueror nor of conquered.

Este libro póstumo es una colección de cuentos de asombrosa variedad en los que Angela Carter explora los mitos del arte, el cine y el subconsciente, y cuenta y renueva viejas leyendas y cuentos de hadas.Fantasmas de America: La obra de John Ford, el cineasta, se mezcla con la del dramaturgo isabelino del mismo nombre. Un joven pianista pacta con el diablo en un prostibulo del Sur. Un aficionado al cine visita los ambiguos restos de la edad de oro de Hollywood.Maravillas del viejo mundo: Alicia en el Pais de las Maravillas se transforma en las manos de un enloquecido agricultor checoslovaco. Maria Magdalena sale fuera de los cuadros de Donatello y Georges de la Tour transfigurada por los estragos de la soledad.

Salman Rushdie ha dicho de este libro que 'algunas de las historias de Fuegos de artificio transcurren en Japón, un país de formales ceremonias y un oscuro erotismo que tocó y desafió la imaginación de Angela Carter... En 'La carne y el espejo' la atmósfera exquisita se hace más densa, acercándose al pastiche, pues la literatura japonesa insiste en estas perversidades sexuales, excepto cuando es diseccionada por la mirada atenta de Carter... En las historias no japonesas Carter entra por primera vez en el mundo de fábula que después convertiría en propio. 'La hermosa hija del verdugo' tiene como escenario una aldea triste y solitaria que es quizá el sitio quintaesencial de Carter; como ella diría más tarde: Tienen un clima frío, y corazones fríos. Los lobos aúllan en los alrededores de estos pueblos y ocurren allí muchas metamorfosis... El otro país de Carter es la feria de atracciones, el mundo de los gimnastas, el hipnotizador, el mago, el titiritero.'

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITHA richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the Chances, Angela Carters witty and bawdy novel is populated with as many sets of twins, and mistaken identities as any Shakespeare comedy, and celebrates the magic of over a century of show business.

Here are subversive tales - by Ama Ata Aidoo, Djuna Barnes, Jane Bowles, Angela Carter, Colette, Bessie Head, Jamaica Kincaid and Katherine Mansfield among others - all with one thing in common: the wish to restore adventuresses and revolutionaries to their rightful position as role models for all women. Elizabeth Jolley celebrates that rare phenomenon, the female confidence trickster and in Leonora Carrington's beautifully surreal tale, a hyena is persuaded by a debutante to take her place at the ball - and go dressed to kill. Reflecting the wide-ranging intelligence and deliciously anarchic taste of Angela Carter, some of these stories celebrate toughness and resilience, some of them low cunning: all of them are about not being nice.

All is yours, everywhere is open to you - except the lock that the single key fits. You must promise, if you love me, to leave it well alone."When a 17 year old virgin marries a mature and charismatic Marquis it seems like a fairy tale. But when the Marquis is called away on their wedding night, leaving her only her only his keys and a single instruction, her curiosity leads her to uncover a dark secret.Bryony Lavery's new stage adaptation of Angela Carter's story opened as a Northern Stage production in September 2008.

Sharp-eyed Marianne lives in a white tower made of steel and concrete with her father and other Professors. Outside, where land is thickly wooded and wild beasts roam, live Barbarians, who raid and pillage in order to survive. Marianne is strictly forbidden to leave her civilized world but, fascinated by these savage outsiders, decides to escape.

* This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners - reissued in a HB edition as a companion to Angela Carters Book of Fairy Tales