Heroes and Villains
A Dystopia, Science Fiction, Magical Realism book. What do you see when you see me?' She asked him, burying her own face...
A modern fable, a post-apocalyptic romance, a gothic horror story; Angela Carter's genre-defying fantasia Heroes and Villains includes an introduction by Robert Coover in Penguin Modern Classics.Sharp-eyed Marianne lives in a white tower made of steel and concrete with her father and the other Professors. Outside, where the land is thickly wooded and wild beasts roam, live the 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. There, beyond the wire fences, she will discover a decaying paradise, encounter the tattooed Barbarian boy Jewel and...
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- Pages: 164 pages
- ISBN: 9780141192383 / 141192380
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ruin had been the original blueprint and men and women had lived here only in a necessary but intermediate stage of the execution of the grand design Angela Carter, Heroes and Villains // Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation. Angela Carter, Heroes and Villains // Marianne had sharp, cold eyes and she was spiteful but her father loved her. Angela Carter, Heroes and Villains //
I'd say 3.5 on this one, but would willingly bump my rating up to 4 for Angela Carter--who, even when not in tip-top shape, is simply incomparable in so many ways.The long and short of it: Heroes & Villains is basically a novel of ideas, as is frequently the case with Carter. Here, as in something like 'The Infernal Desire Machines... Heroes and Villains is like the literary equivalent of a Hieronymus Bosch painting. Strange, oddly fascinating, unnerving and probably quite exhausting if you look at it for too long. I can't say that I liked it, yet at the same time I couldn't stop reading. This is one of those books where either everything means something, or nothing... A post-apocalyptic fantasy, set in a bizarre and brutal world. Its narrative structure borrows from fairy tale and fantasy, so there's a distancing effect that occurs, with the characters coming across as archetypal. The protagonist Marianne is kidnapped, or runs away (this kind of uncertainty about her intentions runs throughout the...
