Volume 39, Number 8 · April 23, 1992
Fighting for the Crown
By John Bayley
Wise Children
by Angela Carter
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 234 pp., $21.00
Love
by Angela Carter
Penguin, 120 pp., $5.95 (paper)
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
by Angela Carter
Penguin, 126 pp., $9.95 (paper)
Heroes and Villains
by Angela Carter
Penguin, 151 pp., $7.95 (paper)
The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman
by Angela Carter
Penguin, 221 pp., $7.95 (paper)
Come Unto These Yellow Sands
by Angela Carter
Bloodaxe Books, 158 pp., $16.95 (paper)
The Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book
edited by Angela Carter
Pantheon, 242 pp., $22.95
The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography
by Angela Carter
Pantheon, 154 pp., $8.95 (paper)
Postmodernism in the arts notoriously starts from the premise that 'anything goes,' but this is no great help if we are trying to find out what sort of fiction today is actually thought and spoken of as postmodernist. The expression has often been used about the books of Angela Carter, and so has the rather more easily definable term 'magic realism.' Indeed when she first started to publish in the Sixties her novels were hailed in England as an enterprising native version of the kind of thing that was being done in North America by Thomas Pynchon and in South America by Gabriel García Márquez.
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