![]() ![]() This slim volume features 10 of Charles Perrault’s fairy tales, translated from French (in 1977), to which Carter has added her own distinct twists and tongue-in-cheek morals. ![]() At just 79 pages in length I couldn’t really go wrong, could I?Ĭarter, who died from cancer aged 51 in 1992, was a fairy-tale writer (among other specialisms). ![]() I found both books enormously enjoyable.īy sheer co-incidence this year I’ve read several novels that have been heavily influenced by the fairy tale tradition: Philippe Claudel’s Brodeck’s Report, Ali Shaw’s The Girl With Glass Feet and Jennifer Johnston’s The Illusionist (a reworking of Bluebeard).Īnd then, last week, partly inspired by the lovely cover of the Penguin Modern Classics edition and Paperback Reader’s Angela Carter month, I picked up The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault in Foyles. But then, last year, I read Kelly Link’s Pretty Monsters, a wonderful collection of modern and slightly twisted fairy tales for young adults, followed not long later by Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and I had to reassess my opinion. I’ve spent much of my adult life convinced that I had grown out of fairy tales. Translated from the French by Angela Carter. Fiction – paperback Penguin Modern Classics 78 pages 2008. ![]()
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