by Angela Carter · Feltrinelli · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788807013331
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«Venere nera» is Angela Carter's collection of short stories, published by Feltrinelli in paperback (176 pages, in Italian).
Stories in which Angela Carter reinterprets real figures and literary legends, above all mythologized or marginalized women, with a sensual and feminist gaze. It includes «Black Venus», which gives voice to Jeanne Duval, Baudelaire's lover; «The Fall River Axe-Murders», about the hours before Lizzie Borden's crime; and «The Kiss».
Originally published in 1987. Translation by Barbara Lanati. Belongs to the «I narratori» collection.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction interested in the feminist rewriting of myths and historical figures.
Angela Olive Pearce, who published under the name Angela Carter, was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realist, and picaresque works. She is mainly known for her book The Bloody Chamber (1979). In 1984, her short story "The Company of Wolves" was adapted into a film of the same name. In 2008, The Times ranked Carter tenth in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In 2012, Nights at the Circus was selected as the best ever winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
