- Paperback: 219 pages
- Publisher: Black Ice Books (January 1995)
- ISBN-10: 1573660493
- ISBN-13: 978-1573660495
- Product Dimensions: 22.2 x 14.9 x 1.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 345 g
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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From Publishers Weekly
Hugo-and Nebula Award-winner Delany?whose early books were fascinating but whose recent efforts have grown increasingly obtuse?has been trying to get this pornographic novel published since 1973. The main narrator here is an 11-year-old boy who joins up with a raping, murdering pederast named Hogg. Coprophiliac Hogg violates women for pay. He enlists the help of other pedophiliac murdering rapists?Nigg, Dago and Denny?and the group sets off to perform acts of hideous violence. After the attacks, a biker friend of Hogg's sells the boy into sexual slavery to dockyard slum resident Big Sambo, who keeps his 12-year-old daughter for prostitution and his own perversions. The traumatized little girl is gang-raped by Hogg's crew as well. Meanwhile, teenaged Denny goes on an insane mutilating and mass-murder spree, eludes the police and finally returns to Hogg and the hopelessly confused narrator, who has been "rescued" after Hogg murders Big Sambo. Gang-rape attacks and criminal sex orgies are detailed at excruciating length, with photographic realism. This potent emetic is all the more disturbing for want of modulators of honest outrage. In other works, Delany has examined the role of the criminal within society; with Hogg, he apparently was content merely to inhabit the criminal mind without exploring it.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"There is no question that Hogg by Samuel R. Delany is a serious book with literary merit."
-Norman Mailer
-Norman Mailer
"Hogg is a truly significant book. It is distasteful, raw, and upsetting; it also treats some of the sexual taboos that Americans do not want addressed in either art or politics. Hogg is an artistic triumph, as well as a political one." -John O'Brien, Dalkey Archive Press
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1 of 17 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
childlike CAMP CRAP,
By david (ALAMO USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hogg (Paperback)
exxcruciating ssp induced lobotony induced LULL, NEARLY NONe done WONDEFULLY dicktion as dissertion SWALLow, WOG in the CLOD OF hog snarly tied SMARLY BARBED BARREL shooters gun FIRST PERSON DONE doom style done in WAD[WHITE AMAZON DELLUGE[ GOO GOO HOOVED GIVEN THE OLE HEAVE HO, HOGG wild PIG SLAUGHTER,perpendicular,FICTION ploted for gutter quarter for, camp pulpp naive naif , or plain NUTS TO beat meat, oh [ so ]SAMMY WHAMMY smarts,,
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3.2 out of 5 stars (21 customer reviews) 14 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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Mailer states it has merit . . .,
By Mr. Egregious - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Hogg (Hardcover)
yet he seems to be giving accolades to most everything these days so we'll discard that. I view it as an endurance test that is heavily laced with black humor. Yes, it is a sign of the times and a reflection of the cutlture that produced it, yet Delany knew this would be said of the work when he was writing it. Next. We have four paid-for-hire rapists that committ any and all acts within the slim volume. By the end we have a serial killing spree that blows Ellis' AMERICAN PSYCHO clean out of the water. In between we witness a character urinating upon another's leg. When the latter inquires what the formering is doing, he replies, "Pissin' on ya' knee." Simple enough. This along with the title character going throughout the course of most of the novel with only one shoe--remember he's involved with vile killings, heavy ethical philosophizing, and sodomistic acts. To end, I must quote the librarian whom I returned the text: "It's like a car wreck, you can't help but look," as she flips through the pages while eating a candy bar. 15 of 21 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
the ultimate shockudrama,
By Oroboros - Published on Amazon.com
A literary professor declared it the most shocking book of the 20th century. Another amazon reviewer claims it blew American Psycho clean out of the water. Those high praises persuaded me to include it on the recommended list, and after reading the book, i must say that Samuel Delany is a great writer, for his meticulous attention to detail firmly establishes a powerful, stylish narrative that is also very flat and cold, almost dispassionate and quite amoral. While the book is truly moral, for it does consistently test the conditions of morality, it does not demand a moral judgment from the reader, because the true testament of a writer's skill is the ability to present a story without prejudging it for the reader.The book itself is, in a word, relentless: it spares nothing in its brutal portrayal of a nameless, silent, 11 year old protagonist whose experiences with the scum of the earth (pedophiles, rapists-for-hire, crooked cops, remorseless pimps) illustrate the unsightly underbelly of our culture. The boy's silence signifies his powerlessness, yet however, it is not a symptom for those without power demonstrate their rebellion by a complete refusal to speak. In essence, if i am permitted to espouse essentialist overtones, the book is little more than a love story, where the man meets the boy, falls in love, loses the boy, and finds him again. And this 'man' is Hogg, a disgusting sadistic misogynist whose articulate insights belie his apparent one-dimensional raison d'etre. Hogg is the "nightmarish Other" who embodies the irrational truths of the world. 3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
The very definition of dull.,
By Jose Jones - Published on Amazon.com
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Delany is known for his sci-fi/fantasy novels. "Hogg" is about as realistic. In it, a slovenly man (the titular Hogg) is a rapist-for-hire, and he drags around our narrator, a silent 11 year old, from one vile crime to the next, all the while repeatedly having sex with him. His cohorts -- an Italian man and a black man, who are normally referred to only by their race -- tag along raping, killing and having sex with the narrator too. Everyone that exists in this strange world 1) is extremely violent and commits acts of violence without hesitation, 2) has sex with children of both genders, 3) engages, or has engaged, in incest, 4) has a penchant for scatology.Even the sex in this book seems unrealistic -- like something someone who's never had sex might write. But more than anything, this novel is just boring. Dreadfully, maddeningly, intensely BORING. The depravity is so redundant it makes your eyes glaze over. We never even scratch the surface of who these evil men are. We hear more of their genitals than what makes them do these things. Delany never once stops to bring us into his characters' minds. What motivates them? What allows them to rape and kill unremittingly and not even have a pang of guilt? Much has been made about how "Hogg" was an "unpublishable" novel. You would assume this was because of its content, but I truly believe it was simply because the book is so gravely dull. If you read one paragraph of the book, you don't need to read anything else. It is that repetitive. Since Delany never bothers to delve even briefly into the reason his characters are who they are, and do the things they do, it leaves the novel as basically violent scenes of rape strung together randomly. Ultimately, what is Delany saying about violence in our society and the exploitation of children? Is he saying anything at all? He doesn't seem to be. The fact that this novel has managed to generate a certain respect and renown, and be taken seriously, isn't exactly surprising. It's been proven more than once that if you clog something with sadistic, repulsive sexual acts people will find it profound. But as it exists, with no insight into its characters and absolutely nothing beneath its grimy surface, "Hogg" is nothing more than lazily and obtusely written rape-porn. |
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