The Burning Ships by Angela Carter Publisher: Nanjing University Press

Introduction
A novelist descendant of the psychoanalytic school and a great dreamer of feminism
The complete collection of short stories by the great British writer Angela Carter
A magical chapter written with the most charming poetry and the most brilliant imagination of the 20th century
Reviving the grotesque archetypes of the human collective unconscious, embroidering a fantastic map of ancient memories and hidden desires
Forty-two stories, forty-two inverted patriarchal cultural dream-stealing journeys
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Angela Carter is a giant in the history of 20th century literature, and is hailed as a literary godmother by a number of great writers such as Rushdie, McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Atwood. The Burning Boats is a collection of her short stories, including 42 short stories, including four previously published collections: Fireworks, The Bloody Chamber, Black Venus, American Ghosts and Old World Wonders, and six unpublished works.
Most of these short stories are based on myths, folk tales, and literary classics. The literary witch Carter uses the principles of psychoanalysis to see through and dismantle these cultural heritages of all mankind, implanting feminist viewpoints into the consciousness elements of the old world, reinstalling the myths and legends of the new world, and constructing a "myth reconstruction project" that competes with the myth and legend system of the entire patriarchal culture. It has become a great classic of fantasy literature and feminism, and has produced broad and far-reaching social impact.
Some critics say that Angela Carter has changed at least one-tenth of the Hollywood industry. This is true. The new version of Beauty and the Beast not only pays tribute to Carter in terms of plot and details, but even the actress who plays the witch in the film is the same actress who played Carter in the documentary Angela Carter. Throughout The Burning Ship, the brilliant writing and the thrilling story unfold like a grand illusion, performing a 42-layer "Inception" of patriarchal culture.
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I repeat, Angela Carter is a great writer. Many of her colleagues and her fascinated readers understand her rarity, a truly unique existence on this planet. She should be placed at the center, the center, of the literature of our time. Her most wonderful works are her short story collections.
-- Rushdie
Her unique style has created exquisite works with exquisite sensual tones, dreams, myths, fairy tales, metamorphoses, chaotic subconscious, epic journeys, and hymns to sex that are both extremely passionate and extremely dark.
--Ian McEwan
If you want to recreate the birth of Angela Carter's work in her style, you need to gather a whole troupe of gods and ghosts around her typewriter. Oscar Wilde must be there, and Poe too, and Bram Stoker, Perrault, Mary Shelley, even McCullers, and a group of noisy old ladies who love to gossip.
—Margaret Atwood
I read Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber when I was seventeen, and the mixture of feminism, sex, and literary magic was the most delicious I had ever tasted. She changed my life.
-- Sarah Waters
The Bloody Chamber is such an important book. Angela Carter is a great person to me. She said, "You see those fairy tales, those books standing on the shelf in the nursery? Every one of them is actually a loaded gun. Every one of them is a bomb. Look out! If you open them just right, they go off. So we all went over and said, "Oh my God, she's right, you can shoot them!"
—Neil Gaiman
What a fireworks display! It's like there's nothing else under the book cover. Gothic, strange, perverted, wonderful... and the language is so rich and gorgeous, like Edgar Allan Poe and O'Connor teaming up to write the Arabian Nights for Scheherazade, the Sultan's bride.
——Mirabella
When you encounter Angela Carter's wonder and magical novel, you will inevitably come to one conclusion: it will be circulated, read and worshipped.
——The Times Literary Supplement
About the Author
Angela Carter
1940-1992
A great British writer, a giantess in the cultural and literary history of the 20th century, she has written many novels, short story collections and essays. Her novels are mainly fantasy-themed, blending psychoanalysis, feminism, Gothic style and allegory. They parody fairy tales, reshape legends, use bizarre imagination and gorgeous language, and build a "myth reshaping project" that competes with the myth and legend system of the entire patriarchal culture. She has gained immortal fame in literature and has had a wide and far-reaching social impact beyond the literary world. Time magazine praised her as one of the most outstanding writers of the 20th century.
About the Translator
Yan Yun
Taiwanese poetess, translator, and master of drama studies from the University of London. The Burning Boats is her representative translation work, which won the Taiwan Top Ten Translated Books Award. She has published poetry collections such as Daylight and Night Scenes.