Carter, Angela. Heroes and Villains. London: Heinemann, 1969. 214 pp. FIRST EDITION.

Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in removable protective sleeve. VG++

"Like her literary hero, Ronald Firbank (…) Carter wanted a language that insisted upon itself as subject, ‘a fiction that takes full cognizance of its status as non-being – that is, a fiction that remains aware that it is of its own nature, which is a different nature than human, tactile immediacy. I really do believe that a fiction absolutely self-conscious of itself as a different form of human experience than reality (that is, not a logbook of events) can help to transform reality itself.’"

Writing, she believed, retained "a singular moral function – that of provoking unease." 

(From the 2011 Penguin Classic introduction to Heroes and Villains by Robert Coover).

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