After reading 7 of her novels in 6 days ...

[larryhammer]

... I wonder. We can all name people doing the fantasy equivalents of Heyer and Chandler, among others. Who's writing the fantasy equivalent of Colette? And what would such a work look like, anyway?

Don't say like Tanith Lee -- she hunts a more Decadent hound. Perhaps, though, it is something like The Architecture of Desire.

ObLinky: Destroy.Hot.Action mangles porn clips into a form of abstract video art. NSFW without headphones.

---L.

Comments

[merlinpole.livejournal.com]

I tried and failed to read work by Colette when I was in college. My roommate (had one my first semester) adored Colette's writing, but I bounced off of it. I may years later have read some of her short stories, but if so they left no real trace of their passing on my conscious, or am I confusing Colette and Anais Nin [spelling...]?

Who did Angela Carter write like? Heroes and Villains was a very strange book.

[larryhammer]

It's possible to confuse Colette and Nin, I suppose -- both sensual early 20th century French writers.

I thought Carter wrote like Shirly Jackson, but I haven't read Heroes and Villians. I keep bouncing off her short stories.

---L.

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

That's an intriguing question. What would you borrow?

Only seven? Five Claudine novels, Cheri and The End of Cheri, Gigi, Julie de Carneilhan, The Ripening Seed ... are you not counting some of these as full-length novels? The nonfiction status of some of the memoirs is debatable, too, I think.

[larryhammer]

(Catching up upon returning from WFC).

The demimonde and the handling is one obvious thing to tackle. That particular blend of nature observation and erotic sensuality and non-erotic sensuality.

Seven: four of the Claudines (skipping the first), the two Cheris, and Music Hall Memories or whatever it's called. I'm not counting Gigi because it's firmly a short story. I need to get Julie de Carneilhan and The Ripening Seed, and read this copy of The Vagabond on that pile over there.

---L.

[gwynnega]

Angela Carter has said that she consciously modeled her story "The Bloody Chamber" after Colette's work and milieu.

[larryhammer]

I think we have that one, but I don't remember reading it. Must look it up tonight. Thanks!

---L.