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Larry Hammer ([personal profile] larryhammer) wrote2005-10-23 07:38 pm
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After reading 7 of her novels in 6 days ...

... 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.

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[identity profile] merlinpole.livejournal.com 2005-10-24 09:10 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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[identity profile] coffeeandink.livejournal.com 2005-11-03 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] gwynnega 2005-11-08 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Angela Carter has said that she consciously modeled her story "The Bloody Chamber" after Colette's work and milieu.