by John Hawkes · Arena · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099325109
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«Virginie: Her Two Loves» is the novel by John Hawkes, published by Arena in paperback (215 pages, in English).
The novel posits two possible lives for Virginie. In one, she is a young woman educated by her former master, a Pygmalion-like creator of women who prepares them to please a decadent French nobility. In the other, she moves in a circle of prostitutes and takes part in Bocage's soirées. The work explores identity, desire and transgression with a prose that The Times defined as erotic fantasy of potent poetry.
The work was originally published in 1982 by Harper & Row in New York; this Arena paperback edition is from 1984.
For readers of literature and fiction interested in an erotic narrative of poetic style and decadent atmosphere.
John Clendennin Talbot Burne Hawkes Jr. was a postmodern American novelist, known for the intensity of his work, which suspended some traditional constraints of narrative fiction.
