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Indlæser... Frisk (original 1992; udgave 2002)af Dennis Cooper (Forfatter)
Work InformationFrisk af Dennis Cooper (1992)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. I don't think I can rate this exactly. Everything except the 2nd to last chapter is really good - pretty fucking dark but a serious examination of fucked up fantasies, how we see The Body, male sexuality, the sick way young boys are fetishised, self destructive behaviour and passivity, the start of fetishes and fixations... it's clever and the fucked up ness is used judiciously. Then the 2nd to last chapter is just a long, incredibly graphic description of raping and murdering some boys. I could not do more than skim it after the first couple of pages. Regardless of artistic intent, it's unbearable and sickening. And I Get It! But I never want to read anything like that again, you know? I should have checked going in but I thought I'd at least try one "extreme" work before not reading them. And yeah, it's not for me. If that chapter was excised, at least 3.5 stars. But yeah. A los trece años, Dennis descubre las fotografías de un hermoso joven mutilado y al parecer muerto en un sádico acto sexual. El misterio de aquellas imágenes acaba por convertirse para él en la fórmula del deseo. Y también son un catalizador para su obsesión por el asesinato. ¿Qué es un asesino, sino aquel que quiere saberlo todo acerca de alguien, obtener la última información que se esconde en los cuerpos? Y Dennis, de igual nombre que el autor de la novela, irá a Francia y luego a Holanda, desde donde enviará a uno de sus antiguos amigos –y cómplice y amante– el relato de los crímenes que comete. Pero ¿son reales los asesinatos descritos, o son una maniobra de seducción del escritor Dennis para atraer a su lector? This is not really a novel. Maybe a novella, but not a novel. It's not even a real story. It's just excerpts from someone's so-called life. Mostly normal, gay sex scenes. I mean, a little kink here and there, sure. But, for the most part, it's boring-as-shit gay sex scenes. Big-fucking-deal. Then, for some reason, this guy turns into a serial killer. Just because he can, apparently. I guess the Dutch just ask for it or something. He finds it just so easy to kill, so he does it, and continues to do it, in graphic detail. He picks up guys, and takes them to a deserted factory and kills and rapes them. Or does he? This fictional character narrates these detailed killing scenes as a letter he's writing to a friend back in the states. But, its just a fantasy, he tells his friend, after the friend actually comes to Amsterdam to visit this crazy serial killer. It wasn't real, was it? No, it wasn't real. So, I just read about an 11 year old boy getting skull fucked and disemboweled with a swiss army knife (at the same time, mind you), and it wasn't even anything I could pretend to have happened. Because, it was fiction within fiction. Even the goddamn fiction was fiction! What the fuck? The narrator of Frisk revels in murderous desire with potentially horrific consequences, and he implicates the reader in imagination, while Cooper himself shows us its power. This novel is a stunning and necessary example within the canon of the transgressive literature of the body. If you think this book is nothing but vapid snuff literature, you miss the point entirely. This novel builds on the themes of Cooper's first novel Closer: the religiosity of viscera, the implications of violence, and the particular expression of alienation expressed by the apathetic yet seeking characters that Cooper creates in an arresting landscape of emotion and intestines. I am excited to read the rest of the George Miles Cycle and see how these themes are further developed and explored. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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When Dennis is thirteen, he sees a series of photographs of a boy apparently unimaginably mutilated. Dennis is not shocked, but stunned by their mystery and their power; their glimpse at the reality of death. Some years later, Dennis meets the boy who posed for the photographs. He did it for love. Surrounded by images of violence, the celebrity of horror, news of disease, a wasteland of sex, Dennis flies to Europe, having discovered some clues about the photographs: "I see these criminals on the news who've killed someone methodically, and they're free. They know something amazing. You can just tell." What they know may lie in bodies themselves. Bodies are unavoidably real; what's in them must have something to say, even in a society that lives on images and fantasies. An isolated windmill in Holland provides the perfect setting for Dennis to find out more about bodies--of which there are many--and what is inside them. In Frisk, as in the award-winning Closer, Dennis Cooper explores the limits of our knowledge and the dividing line between the body and the spirit. Frisk is a novel about the power of fantasy and faith, about the ecstasy and horror of being human. The body's power extends to us all, but what power do we have over it, over its appetites and satisfactions? The answer to these questions is a work of imaginative courage and clarity: a murder mystery that implicates us all and a horror story in which the monster is love. No library descriptions found. |
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