Black Venus (short story collection)

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Black Venus
Hardback edition cover
AuthorAngela Carter
Original titleSaints and Strangers
LanguageEnglish
GenreAnthology
Published1985 by Chatto & Windus
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint
Pages121 pp
ISBN978-0-7011-3964-3
OCLC15631047

Black Venus (also published as Saints and Strangers) is a collection of short fiction by Angela Carter. It was first published in the United Kingdom in 1985 by Chatto & Windus Ltd. and contains eight stories, the majority of which are concerned with re-imagining the lives of certain figures in history, with a particular emphasis on some well known through literature.

The "Black Venus" of the title story is Jeanne Duval, the lover of poet Charles Baudelaire.[1] The anthology's contents are also reprinted in the volume Burning Your Boats, which features all of Carter's short fiction.[1]

Contents

  1. “Black Venus”
  2. “The Kiss”
  3. “Our Lady of the Massacre”
  4. “The Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe”
  5. “Overture and Incidental Music for A Midsummer Night's Dream
  6. “Peter and the Wolf”
  7. “The Kitchen Child”
  8. “The Fall River Axe Murders”[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Jan Dalley (30 July 1995). "A saint more beastly than beautiful. Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories by Angela Carter". The Independent. Retrieved 1 May 2013.
  2. ^ Carter, Angela. Black Venus. Chatto & Windus Ltd., 1985, p. 6.