Hogg: A Novel
by Samuel R. Delany
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Author: Samuel R. DelanyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-05-01
ISBN: 1573661198
Number of pages: 219
Publisher: Fiction Collective 2
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Book Review: Most disturbing
Summary: 5 Stars
This has to be one of the most disturbing books I've ever read. I can understand why it was so difficult to get published. Even Olympia Press refused to publish this book because of its sexual content.
Bravo to FC2 for publishing this work. Although it is incredibly disturbing, it is also brilliantly written. Delany is a master of his craft, and spared nothing to make this a meaningful work.
I'm not sure how audiences might have responded to this work in the early seventies. I imagine it would have been even more shocking to them. But since then we've had decades of depravity (fictional: American Psycho and historical: Abu Ghraib). There were moments when I had to mentally distance myself from the page, but one can get used to just about anything. It was the sustained level of sexual violence and total lack of compassion in the characters that was most troubling.
But there was also something I recognized in the narrator (a young boy taken in by a rapist-for-hire). His attitude towards the suffering of others is often one of curiosity. Unlike most of the characters in the book, the narrator is able to empathize with others. But for this narrator, empathy doesn't translate into compassion. His morality and ethics have developed in a world brimming with violence and abuse. He is a survivor in a world where, as the book jacket says: "pity becomes a betrayal".
Summary of Hogg: A Novel
Acclaimed winner of the William Whitehead Memorial Award for a lifetime's contribution to gay and lesbian literature, Samuel R. Delany wrote Hogg three decades ago. Since then it has been one of America's most famous 'unpublishable' novels. The subject matter of Hogg is our culture of sexual violence and degeneration. Delany explores his disturbing protagonist Hogg on his own turf--rape, pederasty, sexual excess--exposing an area of violence and sexual abuse from the inside. As such, it is a brave book.
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