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The Merry Spinster: Tales of everyday horror de Daniel Mallory Ortberg

The Merry Spinster: Tales of everyday horror

Autor Daniel Mallory Ortberg
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 oct 2019

Ce s-ar întâmpla dacă basmele copilăriei noastre, pe care le considerăm sanctuare ale magiei, ar lăsa la vedere cadavrele îngropate sub straturile de nostalgie? În The Merry Spinster, Daniel Mallory Ortberg nu se mulțumește doar să rescrie narațiunile clasice, ci le întoarce pe dos, expunând un miez de groază cotidiană și tensiune psihologică. Reținem că această colecție de povestiri nu este o simplă parodie, ci o explorare viscerală a cruzimii și a „șotiei feministe” (feminist mischief), păstrând în același timp o fidelitate stranie față de ritmul și structura surselor originale. Față de abordarea satirică și fragmentată din Texts from Jane Eyre, unde autorul folosea anacronismul tehnologic pentru a genera umor, aici Daniel Mallory Ortberg adoptă un ton mai sobru, aproape academic în precizia sa, dar profund neliniștitor. Cine a parcurs Tangleweed and Brine de Deirdre Sullivan va recunoaște aici dorința de a oferi protagonistelor o voce proprie, însă The Merry Spinster se distinge printr-o atmosferă mult mai sinistră și alienantă, unde familiarul devine brusc monstruos. Stilul pendulează între spiritul tăios al lui Dorothy Parker și o erudiție de „clasics nerd”, transformând fiecare basm într-un mecanism de precizie care analizează datoria morală și relațiile de putere. Putem afirma că volumul publicat de Little Brown reușește să transforme ora de culcare într-un spațiu al incertitudinii, unde complexitățile emoționale sunt la fel de ascuțite ca merele otrăvite.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472154125
ISBN-10: 1472154126
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 126 x 198 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Corsair
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Pentru cititorii care savurează proza scurtă cu nuanțe de horror psihologic și reîmprospătarea miturilor vechi. Dacă ești fascinat de modul în care poveștile clasice pot fi subvertite pentru a reflecta anxietăți contemporane și dinamici de gen, The Merry Spinster îți va oferi o experiență de lectură provocatoare, situată la granița dintre basmul tradițional și neliniștea modernă.

Descriere

'Dark and dreadful and persistently clever. Ortberg bloodily turns familiar tales inside out.' Rainbow Rowell

'A collection of stories delectable, formidable, and nimble. As a fantasist and short story writer, Ortberg is without peer.' Kelly Link

'Ortberg has a voracious appetite for poison apples, and a genius for finding the places in fairyland where all the bodies are buried. The Merry Spinster will ruin your most-loved fables, in the best possible way.' Charlie Jane Anders

'Ortberg has the sloe gin wit of Dorothy Parker and the soul of a Classics nerd. It's like both of them sat next to each other in The Merry Spinster and gossiped away. The result is an absolute delight.' John Scalzi

'Ortberg has created a Frankenstein's monster of familiar narratives . . . [that swings] between Terry Pratchett's satirical jocularity and Angela Carter's sinister, shrewd storytelling, and the result is gorgeous, unsettling, splenic, cruel, and wickedly smart. I've never read anything quite like them, and I bet, Dear Reader, that you haven't either.' Carmen Maria Machado

A collection of darkly mischievous stories based on classic fairy tales. Sinister and inviting, familiar and alien all at the same time, The Merry Spinster updates traditional children's stories and fairy tales with elements of psychological horror, emotional clarity, and a keen sense of feminist mischief.

Unfalteringly faithful to its beloved source material, The Merry Spinster also illuminates the unsuspected, and frequently alarming, emotional complexities at play in the stories we tell ourselves and each other as we tuck ourselves in for the night.

Bed time will never be the same.

Recenzii

This delightfully disturbing collection . . . delivers on chills, laughs, and much more. There is plenty of humor to be had here, with Ortberg's signature biting wit and nerdy whimsy out in full force . . . Ortberg's point of view is thoughtful, insightful, and unpretentious. A wholly satisfying blend of silliness, feminist critique, and deft prose makes this a collection of bedtime stories that will keep you up at night for all the right reasons.
The book brings the shock of the new and the shock of recognition into play at the same time; it's a tour de force of skill, daring, and hard-earned bravura.
Dark and dreadful and persistently clever. Ortberg bloodily turns familiar tales inside out.
A collection of stories delectable, formidable, and nimble. As a fantasist and short story writer, Mallory Ortberg is without peer.
Feminist fairy tales? Just what the doctor ordered. Texts From Jane Eyre and Dear Prudence agony aunt Mallory Ortberg conjures up the kinds of stories that will hopefully scary the bogeymen - with the emphasis on "men" - away.
Dear Reader: It would, truthfully, be simplest to call the stories in THE MERRY SPINSTER 'retellings,' but that word does not adequately capture their dark alchemy. Mallory Ortberg has created a Frankenstein's monster of familiar narratives. . .[that swings] between Terry Pratchett's satirical jocularity and Angela Carter's sinister, shrewd storytelling, and the result is gorgeous, unsettling, splenic, cruel, and wickedly smart. I've never read anything quite like them, and I bet, Dear Reader, that you haven't either.
Mallory Ortberg has a voracious appetite for poison apples, and a genius for finding the places in fairyland where all the bodies are buried. The Merry Spinster will ruin your most-loved fables, in the best possible way.

The secret to THE MERRY SPINSTER, I think, is that she never wanted to be your wicked stepmother -- she was too busy. There are uncanny slivers of delight and recognition mixed here with the wit we all love Ortberg for, but here that wit is wielded with new force. If fairy tales are ways to describe the rules we don't dare put down on paper, in her hands they become ways to challenge those, or even to write new rules. I don't know if these stories are for bedtimes, but they are for us.
Mallory Ortberg has the sloe gin wit of Dorothy Parker and the soul of a Classics nerd. It's like both of them sat next to each other in THE MERRY SPINSTER and gossiped away. The result is an absolute delight.

'Empowering, subversive . . . Daniel Mallory Ortberg twists fairy tales into elegant garrotes . . . There's not a single weak link in the cat's-breath chain of this collection . . . incredible' New York Times Book Review

'Dark and dreadful and persistently clever. Ortberg bloodily turns familiar tales inside out' Rainbow Rowell

'Daniel Mallory Ortberg has the sloe gin wit of Dorothy Parker and the soul of a Classics nerd . . . An absolute delight' John Scalzi

From Texts from Jane Eyre author Daniel Mallory Ortberg, comes a creepy collection of darkly mischievous stories based on children's classics. Sinister and inviting, familiar and alien all at the same time, The Merry Spinster updates traditional bedtimes stories and fairy tales with elements of psychological horror, emotional clarity and a keen sense of feminist mischief. And reveals the alarming emotional games at play in the stories we tell as we tuck ourselves in for the night.

Bed time will never be the same.

'A collection of stories delectable, formidable, and nimble . . . Daniel Mallory Ortberg is without peer' Kelly Link