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Travesty

Travesty

Hawkes, John

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Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

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ISBN10: 0811222160
ISBN13: 9780811222167
Publisher: New Directions
Published: Apr 19 2016
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
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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