The Erl King by Angela Carter
A darkly lyrical tale follows a young woman drawn into a primeval forest where a charismatic, predatory woodland figure tempts and ensnares her; the narrative folds myth into modernity as her interior voice oscillates between resistance and complicit desire, exposing tangled themes of power, sexuality and transformation while contrasting the sterile, controlling forces of the outside world with the forest’s coercive, ambiguous allure.
- Published
- 1979
- Nationality
- English
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- Unknown
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- Original Language
- English
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