Sphinx
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (827 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1941920098 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 152 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-03 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The advertising misleads, but still a great novella echoe The blurb on the title and, indeed, what likely drives you to the book, was not entirely accurate in my reading. That's not the main thrust of the book from what I read, and indeed as soon as I got a bit through it I started imagining genders for the two main characters in the love story, who aren't directly talked about with gender but who do hit two fairly common gender stereotypes.A. Great Read Emily This book is a great romance novel! It provides the love story of two very different characters and doesn't reveal their genders! It is very entertaining and easy to read.. Amazon Customer said Breathtaking. This heartbreaking love story was filled with beautiful prose. Personally, I took a pen to my copy and marked it all over. Absolutely loved and absolutely recommend.
Nominated for the 2016 PEN Translation PrizeOne of Flavorwire's Top 50 Independent Books of 2015One of Entropy Magazine's Best Fiction Books of 2015One of Bookriot's 100 Must-Read Books Translated From FrenchSphinx is the remarkable debut novel, originally published in 1986, by the incredibly talented and inventive French author Anne Garréta, one of the few female members of Oulipo, the influential and exclusive French experimental literary group whose mission is to create literature based on mathematical and linguistic restraints, and whose ranks include Georges Perec and Italo Calvino, among others.A beautiful and complex love story between two characters, the narrator, "I," and their lover, A***, written without using any gender markers to refer to the main characters, Sphinx is a remarkable linguistic feat and paragon of experimental literature that has never been accomplished before or since in the strictly-gendered French language.Sphinx is a landmark text in the feminist, LGBT, and experimental literary canons appearing in English for the first time.
Sphinx is an important contribution to queer literaturefascinating, intelligent, and very welcome." Lambda Literary. "The set-up is such a classic, relatable tale of falling in -- and out -- of love that one wonders why gender has always been such a huge factor in how we discuss relationships, in fiction and otherwise. So, the author, and the translator, created their own language, championing love and desire over power and difference." Maddie Crum, Huffington Post"The strength of Sphinx lies in its philosophical eloquence Take away gender