POTO book: Fairy Tales

[my_daroga]

In the hopes of spurring myself on to further action, here is something I wrote a few months ago about the place of fairy tales (specifically "Beauty and the Beast" and "Bluebeard") in The Phantom of the Opera. Reading it over, it needs some structural work, and is a bit dry. Do not feel obligated to read it, and if you do, don't feel obligated to

Comments

[scarletsherlock]

I really, really enjoyed reading that. I didn't find it dry at all. This is just the sort of thing I would want to read in a POTO book.

[my_daroga]

Wow, you're fast! Thank you so much. I really appreciate your feedback--hopefully that will make me more hopeful about my eventual success.

[glamtron]

I want to read more about what is going on in your brains!

In a previous post I wondered who would be banning you from your television so you can write. I'll come out there myself if that is what it takes! Very thought provoking and not dry at all!!!! You're making my mind spin in tons of neat directions!

[cimness]

Have you read The Bloody Chamber, by Angela Carter? There are a couple of stories in there, as I remember, that are relevant! And it's interesting to think of POTO as perhaps an attempt to do what Carter was doing - forge a new, modern fairy tale out of bits of the old ones, drawing on the fairy-story genre but with a new socially relevant moral.