Angela Carter’s short story, “The Kiss,” is a brief narrative that describes the city of Samarkand and recounts a legend about the wife of Samarkand’s emperor. The story explores themes of love, fantasy, and reality.
Angela Carter's fiction poses precisely the question of what is central, what eccentric in contemporary British writing. "We live in Gothic times," she wrote in an afterword to her 1974 collection of ...
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During the inventive last ten years of her life—when she produced two of the most festive and disturbing novels of the last years of the century, Nights at the Circus (1984) and Wise Children (19...
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Angela Carter's fantastic fiction is noteworthy for its stylistic excellence, its treatment of feminist themes, and its reliance on and reaction to motion-picture, fairy-tale, folklore, gothic, and sc...
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Angela (Olive) Carter