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A review by savaging
Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories by Angela Carter
5.0
Angela Carter takes care to explain that she writes 'tales,' not 'short stories.' They don't try to portray a scene from every-day life. Rather they grab hold of some Gothic symbol dredged up from the deep unconscious and move through its own improbable but inevitable story arc.
I loved these stories. I love the patchwork forays they make into the interior realms and collective unconscious. Carter once explained her work by saying "We live in Gothic times." Amid all the fluorescent office lighting and bone-dry corporate bureaucracies, I feel this too, that this is an unacknowledged Gothic time, with uncanny horror always close to the surface.
I loved these stories. I love the patchwork forays they make into the interior realms and collective unconscious. Carter once explained her work by saying "We live in Gothic times." Amid all the fluorescent office lighting and bone-dry corporate bureaucracies, I feel this too, that this is an unacknowledged Gothic time, with uncanny horror always close to the surface.