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Chargement... The Mad Man (1994)par Samuel R. Delany
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Maybe not since De Sade has the achievement of the pornotopic novel been fully realized. The pornotopia, a literary genre in which the pleasures of sex supplant the moral frameworks usually found within the world of a novel, is a little explored or employed genre. Unlike De Sade, Delany's pornotopic fantasy bursts with empathy and makes a point of transcending class barriers, dropping down into the gutters and the dirty sidewalks where acts of urophagia and coprophagia are rampant. Still, for all of its wild sexual events, the novel is grounded in human tenderness and the value of interaction, sexual and nonsexual, between individuals. Add to all of this an intriguing mystery about the demise of the young philosopher Timothy Hasler, who was no prude himself, and you have a sprawling and multifaceted novel unlike anything else in contemporary queer literature. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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A philosophy student's research draws him into the sexual underground of 1980s and early nineties New York John Marr is surprised he doesn't have AIDS. He has been having near-daily sexual encounters with strange men since before the dawn of HIV, but he remains healthy. His initiation began in the bathroom of the Staten Island Ferry Terminal, and since then he has found himself at home in the darkest corners of Manhattan's culture of anonymous gay sex. During the day, it is a different story, as Marr works on his graduate thesis--an analysis of the work of a brilliant 1970s philosopher who died mysteriously in one of the gay bars of Hell's Kitchen. As his research and his sex life begin to converge, Marr senses that if AIDS doesn't get him, something darker will. The Mad Man, which the author dubbed a "pornotopic fantasy," is more than a powerful work of philosophical erotica; it is a snapshot of a vanished moment in New York City's gay history, when fear and lust commingled in a single powerful force. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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What's really jarring (assuming you can get past the obvious stuff) is that it starts out as a realistic novel, and gradually turns into what Delany calls a "pornotopia" where the sexual process has taken over completely. The scene that begins this process, where the narrator walks up to some homeless men in Central Park and propositions them to their great surprise (and his own), is very strange and moving-- it's a science-fiction effect. ( )