Author(s):
Biscaia, Maria Sofia Pimentel
Date: 2004
Origin: Forma Breve
Subject(s): Angela Carter; «Puss-in-Boots»; a commedia dell’arte; «O Barba Azul»; o grotesco; Angela Carter; «Puss-in-Boots»; commedia dell’arte; «Bluebeard»; the grotesque; Angela Carter; Angela Carter; «Puss-in-Boots»; «Puss-in-Boots»; a commedia dell’arte; a commedia dell’arte; «O Barba Azul»; «O Barba Azul»; o grotesco; o grotesco; Angela Carter; Angela Carter; «Puss-in-Boots»; «Puss-in-Boots»; commedia dell’arte; commedia dell’arte; «Bluebeard»; «Bluebeard»; the grotesque; the grotesque
Description
In the short-story «Puss-in-Boots» Angela Carter rewrites Charles Perrault’s classic «Le Chat Botté». She enhances the comic element by constructing it in the vein of commedia dell’arte which at the end subverts the up-coming uxoricide and the «Bluebeard» Leitmotiv. The combination of humour and the terrible represents yet another form of the Carterian grotesque abounding in The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories.
No conto «Puss-in-Boots» Angela Carter reescreve o clássico de Charles Perrault «Le Chat Botté» mas acentuando a veia cómica através da commedia dell’arte que no final subverte o uxoricídio que se avizinhava e o Leitmotiv de «O Barba Azul». A combinação de humor com o terrífi co materializa mais uma forma do grotesco carteriano que abunda em The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories.
