Rowan Somerville's top 10 of good sex in fiction
Given by The Guardian
10 Works 103,683 Books 1,964 Reviews 3.9
"Most adults are interested in sex. I am. My father was, and said as much to me when he was 92. I suspect that you are too. You're reading this after all. Being so central to much of our lives and vis mere indeed life itself, it is a valid and important topic for fiction.
"The challenge of writing about sex is to evoke the physicality, the yearning, the counterpoint between magnificent operatic grandiosity and ludicrous bestial grunting – without resorting to cliché. As the American author Elizabeth Benedict wrote: 'A good sex scene is not always about good sex, but it is always an example of good writing.' As an enthusiastic reader and a writer too, my opinion is that it doesn't matter how weird things get as long as it remains original and feels authentic.
"Some of the sex in the books below works as a device for revealing the state of society, some is a device for characterisation; a way of revealing truths about characters that they themselves may not be able to see – but most of it is just about desire, lust and sex itself."
Rowan Somerville – LT author page vis mindre
"The challenge of writing about sex is to evoke the physicality, the yearning, the counterpoint between magnificent operatic grandiosity and ludicrous bestial grunting – without resorting to cliché. As the American author Elizabeth Benedict wrote: 'A good sex scene is not always about good sex, but it is always an example of good writing.' As an enthusiastic reader and a writer too, my opinion is that it doesn't matter how weird things get as long as it remains original and feels authentic.
"Some of the sex in the books below works as a device for revealing the state of society, some is a device for characterisation; a way of revealing truths about characters that they themselves may not be able to see – but most of it is just about desire, lust and sex itself."
Rowan Somerville – LT author page vis mindre
Værk | Order Label |
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Lolita (1955) af Vladimir Nabokov | 1 |
Den røde blomst, den hvide blomst (2002) af Michel Faber | 2 |
Story of the Eye (1928) af Georges Bataille | 3 |
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979) af Angela Carter | 4 |
Lady Chatterleys elsker (1960) af D. H. Lawrence | 5 |
Dracula (1897) af Bram Stoker | 6 |
Thongs (1971) af Alexander Trocchi | 7 |
En drengs historie (1982) af Edmund White | 8 |
O's historie (1954) af Pauline Réage | 9 |
Platform (2001) af Michel Houellebecq | 10 |
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