New Releases by Angela Carter

Paintings and text capture the strange moods of cats and introduce the alphabet.

"With surgical precision it charts the destructive emotional war between a young woman, her husband and his disruptive brother as they move through a labyrinth of betrayal, alienation and lost connections." --

The transformation of Desiderio''s city into a mysterious kingdom is instantaneous: Hallucination flows with magical speed in every brain; avenues and plazas are suddenly as fertile as fairy-book forests. And the evil comes, too, as imaginary massacres fill the streets with blood, the dead return to question the living, and profound anxiety drives hundreds to suicide. Behind it all stands Doctor Hoffman, whose gigantic generators crack the immutable surfaces of time and space and plunge civilization into a world without the chains – or structures – of reason. Only Desiderio, immune to mirages and fantasy, can defeat him. But Desiderio''s battle will take him to the very brink of undeniable, irresistible desire.

A collection of short stories full of extraordinary people, some of them real - Jean Duval, Baudelaire''s black mistress; Edgar Allan Poe and Lizzie Borden. Other characters flow from a fantastic imagination.

Reprenant une série de dix contes célèbres pour enfant, la romancière britannique entreprend ici une réécriture de ces récits de tradition masculine. Le film a été primé au festival d''Avoriaz 1985. .

In the pursuit of magnificence, nothing is sacred,'' says Angela Carter, and magnificence is indeed her own achievement. One of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation, her work as a journalist and critic was no less original. Long autobiographical pieces on her life in South Yorkshire and South London are followed by highly individual inspections of ''abroad''. Some of her most brilliant writing is devoted to Japan - exotically and erotically described here - so perfectly suited to the Carter pen. Domestically, Angela Carter used her mordant wit and accurate eye to inspect England and Englishness as it manifested itself throughout the land. Then she turns to her own craft, and her extraordinarily wide-ranging book reviews are masterpieces.

Across a mysterious landscape. . . of ruin and wilderness the Professors are all that remain of human order in the world. Here crops are cultivated, books are still read, children are schooled. But outside the walls of their fortress villages, beasts roam and the land is peopled by savage, strangely costumed barvarians who raid and plunder. Marianne belonged to the people of civilization and reason -- but they young barbarian Jewel has taken her for his own, into a world of animal virility and savage splendor of heroes and villians.

The bloody chamber -- The courtship of Mr. Lyon -- The tiger''s bride -- Puss-in-Boots -- The Erl-King -- The snow child -- The lady of the house of love -- The worewolf -- The company of wolves -- Wolf-Alice.

"This story follows Evelyn, a young Englishman, along a journey through mythology and sexuality. It is a story of how he learns to be a woman, first in the brutal hands of Zero, the ragtime Nietzsche, then through the ancient Tristessa, the beautiful ghost of Hollywood past."--

Desiderio is a government minister in a otherwise prosperous city. Unfortunately, it is currently under attack by Doctor Hoffman''s reality distorting machines. Desiderio has been tasked with assassinating Dr. Hoffman so as to stop the attack.

After the apocalypse, society is divided into three endlessly warring factions. The Professors and Soldiers maintain what is left of civilization while the superstitious Barbarians constantly attack them. The Barbarians are in turn attacked by the deformed and diseased Out People, who struggle to survive in a netherworld of incinerated cities. When Marianne, a Professor''s daughter, is kidnapped to become the captive bride of the Barbarian Jewel, a dangerous, erotic love story begins. For as Marianne gives herself over to the exotic life of the jungle, she also begins to discover her own capacity for barbarism and violence.