Angela Carter

Naissance 1940 · Décès 1992

Angela Carter (née le 7 mai 1940 à Eastbourne, dans le Sussex, en Angleterre, morte le 16 février 1992 à Londres) fut une romancière britannique qui a renouvelé les motifs de la mythologie, des légendes et des contes de fées dans son œuvre, leur conférant un humour macabre et une dimension érotique.

Citations

“Throwing open the door, she brings forth the veritable queen of all the souffles, that spreads its archangelic wings over the entire kitchen as it leaps upwards from the dish in which the force of gravity alone confines it.”
The Kitchen Child 1976 .En anglais
“Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.”
Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings 1992 .En anglais
“Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.”
Chapter 5En anglais
“Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.”
Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings 1998 .En anglais