Angela Carter

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Angela Carter (born May 7, 1940 in Eastbourne , England , † February 16, 1992 in London ; born Angela Olive Stalker ) was a British writer .

Life

Angela Carter initially worked as a local journalist . In 1969 she received the Somerset Maugham Award . As a result, she traveled extensively and lived in Tokyo for two years . Carter wrote novels , short stories , fairy tales , nonfiction and children's books . She also published articles in well-known newspapers. Two of her books were made into films.

In The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History ( Sexuality is Power ), Carter examines the relationship between sexuality and power . Here she goes into the story of O and the works of the Marquis de Sade . While she rejects the former, what she values ​​about de Sade's works is that they place sexuality in a political context and very explicitly depict the existence of female dominance .

Angela Carter died in 1992 at the age of 51 years to cancer .

reception

She won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1969 with The Magic Toyshop , the Somerset Maugham Prize with Several Perceptions in 1968 and the 1979 Cheltenham Festival Literary Prize with The Bloody Chamber . Especially with Nights at the Circus and her short stories, collected in Burning Your Boats , Carter is an important representative of the slipstream literature.

The Australian band Jack Frost released a song called Angela Carter on the album Snow Job in 1996 .

Awards

bibliography

If only the title and year are given as the source for translations of short stories, the complete information can be found in the corresponding collective edition.

Bristol Trilogy (novels)
  • 1 Shadow Dance (1966; also: Honeybuzzard , 1967)
  • 2 Several Perceptions (1968)
  • 3 Love (1971)
    • German: The tattooed heart. Translated by Joachim Kalka. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-608-93192-9 .
Novels
  • The Magic Toyshop (1967)
    • English: The Doll Maker's House. Translated by Joachim Kalka. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-608-95531-3 .
  • Heroes & Villains (1969)
    • German: Heroes and Villains. Translated by Joachim Kalka. Klett-Cotta # 95628, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-608-95628-X .
  • The Donkey Prince (1970)
  • Miss Z, the Dark Young Lady (1970)
  • The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972; also: The War of Dreams , 1974)
    • English: The infernal dream machines of Doctor Hoffman. Translated by Joachim Kalka. Klett-Cotta # 95282, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-608-95282-9 .
  • The Passion of New Eve (1977)
    • German: In the heat of the city. Translated by Joachim Kalka. Heyne-Bücher # 6880, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-453-00295-4 . Also called: The Book of Eve. Translated and with an afterword by Joachim Kalka. Elster-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89151-245-6 .
  • The Music People (1980; with Leslie Carter)
  • Nights At the Circus (1984)
    • German: nights at the circus. Translated by Joachim Kalka. Klett-Cotta # 95359, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-608-95359-0 .
  • Wise Children (1991)
    • German: As we like it. Translated by Joachim Kalka. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-608-95845-2 .
  • Sea-Cat and Dragon King (2000)
Collections
  • Five Quiet Shouters (Poems, 1966)
  • Unicorn (poems, 1966)
  • Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces (1970; also as: Fireworks: Nine Stories in Various Disguises )
  • The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979)
    • English: Bluebeard's room: fairy tales from the intermediate world. Rowohlt, 1982, ISBN 3-498-00858-7 . Also as: Bluebeard's room: fairy tales for adults. Translated by Sybil Countess Schönfeldt. Rowohlt (Rororo # 5502), Reinbek near Hamburg 1987, ISBN 3-499-15502-8 .
    • English: Martin Lemans strange cats. Text by Mischa Lentz based on the English original by Angela Carter. Lentz, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-88010-063-2 .
  • Come Unto These Yellow Sands: Four Radio Plays (Radio Play, 1985)
  • Black Venus (1985; also: Saints and Strangers , 1986)
    • German: Black Venus. Translated by Joachim Kalka. Deutsche Taschenbuch-Verlag (dtv # 11227), Munich 1990, ISBN 3-423-11227-1 .
  • Artificial Fire (1988)
  • American Ghosts and Old World Wonders (1993)
  • Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories (1995)
  • The Curious Room: Plays, Film Scripts and an Opera (1996)
  • Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and Other Classic Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault (2008)
  • Bluebeard (2011)
  • Unicorn: The Poetry of Angela Carter (Poems, 2015)
  • The Bloody Chamber / Wise Children / Fireworks (2018, collective edition)
Children's books
  • The Donkey Prince (1970)
  • Miss Z, the Dark Young Lady (1970)
  • Comic and Curious Cats (1979; with Martin Leman)
  • Moonshadow (1982; with Justin Todd)
  • Sea-Cat and Dragon King (2000)
Short stories

1962:

  • The Man Who Loved a Double Bass (1962)

1965:

  • A Very, Very Great Lady and Her Son at Home (1965)

1966:

  • A Victorian Fable (With Glossary) (1966)

1972:

  • The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (1972)
    • German: Among cannibals. Translated by Joachim Kalka. In: Hobbit-Presse (Ed.): The Hobbit Buch. dtv Klett-Cotta # 10496, 1988, ISBN 3-423-10946-7 (excerpt).

1974:

  • Elegy for a Freelance (1974, in: Angela Carter: Fireworks )
  • The Executioner's Beautiful Daughter (1974, in: Angela Carter: Fireworks )
  • Flesh and the Mirror (1974, in: Angela Carter: Fireworks )
  • The Loves of Lady Purple (1974, in: Angela Carter: Fireworks )
  • Master (1974, in: Angela Carter: Fireworks )
    • German: Master. Translated by L. Sobez. In: Michel Parry (ed.): Ten devil's kisses. Pabel (Vampir Taschenbuch # 68), 1978. Also called: Der Jäger. Translated by Brigitte Beyer. In: Fantastic Literature 84.Bastei Lübbe (Fantastic Literature # 72033), 1983, ISBN 3-404-72033-4 . Also as: Lord. Translated by Ute Thiemann. In: Michele Slung (Ed.): I tremble when you touch me. Bastei Lübbe Paperback # 28203, 1992, ISBN 3-404-28203-5 .
  • Penetrating to the Heart of the Forest (1974, in: Angela Carter: Fireworks )
  • Reflections (1974, in: Angela Carter: Fireworks )
  • The Smile of Winter (1974, in: Angela Carter: Fireworks )
  • A Souvenir of Japan (1974, in: Angela Carter: Fireworks )

1975:

  • The Lady of the House of Love (1975)

1976:

  • The Scarlet House (1976)

1977:

  • The Company of Wolves (1977, in: Emma Tennant (Ed.): Bananas )
    • German: The Society of Wolves. Translated by Sybil Countess Schönfeldt. In: Angela Carter: Bluebeard's Room. 1987.
  • The Erlking (1977; also: The Erl-King , 1994)
    • German: The Erlkönig. Translated by Sybil Countess Schönfeldt. In: Angela Carter: Bluebeard's Room. 1987.
  • The Kiss (1977)
  • The Werewolf (1977)
    • German: the werewolf. Translated by Gudula Lorez. In: Angela Carter: Bluebeard's Room. 1987.

1978:

  • Wolf Alice (1978)

1979:

  • The Bloody Chamber (1979, in: Angela Carter: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories )
    • German: Bluebeard's room. Translated by Sybil Countess Schönfeldt. In: Angela Carter: Bluebeard's Room. 1982.
  • The Courtship of Mr. Lyon (1979, in: Angela Carter: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories ; also: The Courtship of Mr Lyon , 1993)
    • German: Mister Lyons Commercial. Translated by Sybil Countess Schönfeldt. In: Angela Carter: Bluebeard's Room. 1987.
  • The Lady of the House of Love (1979, in: Angela Carter: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories )
    • English: The lady from the house of love. Translated by Sybil Countess Schönfeldt. In: Angela Carter: Bluebeard's Room. 1987.
  • Puss-in-Boots (1979, in: Angela Carter: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories ; also: Puss in Boots , 1980)
    • German: Puss in Boots. Translated by Sybil Countess Schönfeldt. In: Angela Carter: Bluebeard's Room. 1987.
  • The Snow Child (1979, in: Angela Carter: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories )
    • German: Das Schneekind. Translated by Sybil Countess Schönfeldt. In: Angela Carter: Bluebeard's Room. 1987.
  • The Tiger's Bride (1979, in: Angela Carter: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories )
    • English: The Tiger's Bride. Translated by Sybil Countess Schönfeldt. In: Michael Görden (Ed.): The great book of erotic fantasy. Bastei-Lübbe, 1982, ISBN 3-404-13351-X .
  • Wolf Alice (1979, in: Angela Carter: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories )
    • German: Werwolf. In: Angela Carter: Bluebeard's Room. 1982. Also as: Wolfs-Alice. Translated by Sybil Countess Schönfeldt. In: Angela Carter: Bluebeard's Room. 1987.
  • The Kitchen Child (1979)
  • Our Lady of the Massacre (1979)

1980:

  • Black Venus (1980, in: Angela Carter: Black Venus )
  • Black Venus's Tale (1980)

1981:

  • The Fall River Ax Murders (in: The London Review of Books, 1981 )
  • The Quilt Maker (1981)

1982:

  • The Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe (in: Interzone, # 1 Spring 1982 )
  • Peter and the Wolf (1982)

1983:

  • The Bridegroom (1983, in: Maxim Jakubowski (Ed.): Lands of Never )
    • German: The Bridegroom. Translated by Utta Roy-Seifert. In: Maxim Jakubowski (Ed.): Fantasies from Never Land. Klett-Cotta Hobbit # 95254, 1985, ISBN 3-608-95254-3 .

1985:

  • Come Unto These Yellow Sands (1985, in: Angela Carter: Come Unto These Yellow Sands )
  • Overture for 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (in: Interzone, # 3 Autumn 1982 ; also: Overture and Incidental Music for "A Midsummer Night's Dream" , 1985)
  • Puss in Boots (1985, in: Angela Carter: Come Unto These Yellow Sands )
  • Vampirella (1985, in: Angela Carter: Come Unto These Yellow Sands )

1987:

  • Ashputtle: or, The Mother's Ghost (1987, in: Richard Dalby (Ed.): The Virago Book of Ghost Stories )

1988:

  • John Ford's "'Tis Pity She's a Whore" (1988)

1989:

  • The Merchant of Shadows (1989)

1990:

  • Alice in Prague or The Curious Room (1990)
  • Parsley-girl (1990, in: Angela Carter: The Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book )

1991:

  • In Pantoland (1991)
  • Lizzie's Tiger (1991)

1992:

  • Impressions: The Wrightsman Magdalene (1992)

1993:

  • The Ghost Ships (1993)
  • Gun for the Devil (1993)

1995:

  • The Snow Pavilion (1995, in: Angela Carter: Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories )

1996:

  • Lizzie Borden (1996)
Anthologies
  • Sleeping Beauty & Other Favorite Fairy Tales (1982)
  • Wayward Girls & Wicked Women: An Anthology of Subversive Stories (1986)
  • Strange Things Sometimes Still Happen (1993)
  • Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales (2005)

Angela Carter's Fairy Tales:

  • 1 The Virago Book of Fairy Tales (1990; also: The Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book )
  • 2 The Second Virago Book of Fairy Tales (1976; also: Strange Things Sometimes Still Happen: Fairy Tales from Around the World , 1993)
  • Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales (Collective Edition of 1 and 2; 2008)
Non-fiction
  • Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings (1974)
  • The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography (1978)
    • German: Sexuality is Power: The woman at de Sade. Translated by Lieselotte Mietzner. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-498-00853-6 .
  • Nothing Sacred: Selected Writings (1982)
    • German: Nothing sacred: Feminist views. Translated by Monika Blaich. Deutsche Taschenbuch-Verlag (dtv # 11165), Munich 1990, ISBN 3-423-11165-8 .
  • Images of Frida Kahlo (1989)
  • Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings (1997; also: Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings , 1998)

Filmography

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A Working Canon of Slipstream Writings , compiled at Readercon July 18, 2007 (PDF), accessed on October 5, 2018.
  2. ↑ The Magic Toyshop in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Carter, Angela
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carter, Angela Olive Stalker (full name); Stalker, Angela Olive (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Eastbourne
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1992
Place of death London