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The Blood Oranges
  

The Blood Oranges (Hardcover)

de John Hawkes (Author) "LOVE WEAVES ITS OWN TAPESTRY, SPINS ITS OWN GOLDEN thread, with its own sweet breath breathes into being its mysteries-bucolic, lusty, gentle as the eyes..." En savoir plus
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"Need I insist that the only enemy of the mature marriage is monogamy? That anything less than sexual multiplicity . . . is naive?" Thus the central theme of John Hawkes's widely acclaimed The Blood Oranges is boldly asserted by its narrator, Cyril, the archetypal "sex-singer." Likening himself to a white bull on Love's tapestry, he pursues his romantic vision in a primitive Mediterranean landscape. There, two couples mingle their loves in an "Ilyria" that brings to mind the equally timeless countryside of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

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4.0étoiles sur 5 Brilliant, but..., Janv. 30 2002
This review is from: Blood Oranges (Paperback)
This is a complicated and mysterious book by a writer with an amazing command of his prose. The tragic story is doled out in tiny slivers along with a vivid description of the imagined Mediteraenan location where the events unfold. The narrator is a self-proclaimed "love singer" who is desperately proud of his marriage and of the many, many women he has loved during his marriage. It's hard at least for this reader to be sure how ironically we are to view the protagonists advocacy of totally free love. The narrator clearly blames the stories tragic outcome on the small-mindedness of his rival in love--I at least am left wondering whether the author means us to blame the victim or the protagonist. The story can be oppressive at times with its pervasive melancholy--but it certainly makes you think. Hawkes is a terrific writer and this is a challenging, difficult and definitely uncomfortable work of genius.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 A Blazing Imagination, Aoû 26 2001
Par Robert Bezimienny (Sydney, NSW Australia) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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John Hawkes has created some of the most beautiful prose ever penned; the word surface in this book is as memorable and enjoyable as any I've read, at turns surprising, sensual, poetic, and often all of this and more. As an extended flight of the imagination 'The Blood Oranges' explores regions of desire, fidelity, and repression that many have gestured towards or illuminated in passing, but that few have mapped extensively. For me, it stands as tremendously courageous writing, and writing elevated by a pervasive and exciting humour. It's very funny, in the way that Beckett's or Kafka's prose can be - and Hawkes' deserves to be considered as a writer of their stature. I only wish I'd been exposed to his writing sooner. He's a genius.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Brilliantly lyrically sardonic, Juil 13 1999
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Hawkes' sensuality at its most accessible, a work whose difficultly may be off-putting to some readers, but whose rewards run deep. Sex and death repose in contented embrace from beginning to end; from fetid canals to crab-strewn plates.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Lyrical
I found this book lyrical and somewhat surreal. It evoked memories of John Barth's End of the Road. The book was original, uninhibited, and rather melancholy. Read more
Publié le Juil 11 1999 par RLR

1.0étoiles sur 5 irritating and painful
The Blood Oranges is a book that is too flowery. Not that flowery is bad, it's good if you follow the story without having to take notes. Read more
Publié le Jui 29 1999

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