Travesty

Fiction & Literature, Psychological, Literary, Mystery & Suspense, Thrillers
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Author: John Hawkes ISBN: 9780811222358
Publisher: New Directions Publication: April 21, 2016
Imprint: New Directions Language: English
Author: John Hawkes
ISBN: 9780811222358
Publisher: New Directions
Publication: April 21, 2016
Imprint: New Directions
Language: English

An exceptionally brilliant novel from “our most interesting writer” (Flannery O’Connor)

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.

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An exceptionally brilliant novel from “our most interesting writer” (Flannery O’Connor)

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.

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