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Travesty
Travesty is John Hawkes's most extreme vision of eroticism and comic terror. In the south of France, an elegant sports car is speeding through the night, bearing a man, his daughter, and his best friend toward a fatal crash. As he drives, the "privileged man" justifies, in a sustained monologue, his firm opinion that willed destruction is the ultimate act of the poetic imagination. "What I have in mind is an 'accident' so perfectly contrived that it will be unique, spectacular and instantaneous, a physical counterpart to that vision in which it was in fact conceived." Concerned with sex, myth, the imagination, and the absurd, Travesty is one of the most cruelly and vibrantly ironic works to be found in twentieth-century literature.
Book Details
- Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Publish Date: Apr 19th, 2016
- Pages: 128
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.90in - 5.20in - 0.40in - 0.30lb
- EAN: 9780811222167
- Categories: • Literary• Psychological• Thrillers - Psychological
About the Author
Hawkes, John: - John Hawkes (1925-1998) was a postmodern novelist born in Stamford, Connecticut, and educated at Harvard University. He was noted for his unconventional style and views on the creation of literature and was admired by Flannery O'Connor, Robert Penn Warren, Saul Bellow, Anthony Burgess, Jeffrey Eugenides, and Donald Barthelme.
Praise for this book
John Hawkes is an extraordinary writer. I have always admired his books. They should be more widely read.--Saul Bellow
There is no doubt that he is one of the very best living American writers, and Travesty one of his most remarkable fictions.--Tony Tanner "The New York Times"
A singularly gifted writer.-- "The New Yorker"
One of the steadily brightest (and paradoxically darkest) lights of American letters through our century's second half, a navigation star for scores of apprentice writers however different their own literary course. One of our most original literary imaginations and masterly prose stylists.--John Barth "The New York Times"