Written on the Body
by Jeanette Winterson
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Author: Jeanette WintersonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1994-02-01
ISBN: 0679744479
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Vintage
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Book Review: Self-indulgent, self-satisfied, and deeply irritating
Summary: 1 Stars
Many friends who I greatly respect adore this book, and I suppose the fact that they're straight and I'm lesbian doesn't really give me license to make my dislike of it 'authoritative'. But I find the book very evasive, very unplaced and very unpolitical in spite of jokey references to man-hating feminist terrorists. Much play has been made of the book's 'genderless' narrator. Is this more than a trick? I don't know, but I also don't know many people who've been able to read the book without reading the narrator as a woman, influenced by Winterson's status as most-hyped lesbian author. However, whatever you make of the gender of the narrator, the ego of the narrator is pretty apparent, and I disliked the book so completely simply because the author's/narrator's intention seems to be to play games at the reader's expense; every paragraph has a punchline. The book is supposed to be about love, passion, the intensity and depth of it. I can't read it like that when all we ever know about the beloved is that she has red hair. What is it about her that the narrator loves? In Winterson's world that doesn't even seem to be an intelligible question.
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