--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Tim Bateman"
<tim.bateman1@n...> wrote:
> (Jack Bludis):
>
> I do observe that the person who
> called for its banning seems to have read
the
> book.
>
>
> (Tim):
>
> I suppose there's a first time for
everything.
>
> Tim
Well, I haven't read it (although I have a copy) and probably
won't now for a while since I went ahead and read the
spoilers (not because of the content--I just don't want the
ending fresh in my memory). It sounds to me though, that the
criticism of the book is based in part on the author's
gender, a critical approach that I find bothersome to say the
least because I believe in evaluating a book based on what's
on the page and not what may or may not have been in the
author's mind. I know someone compared this to Dorothy
Hughes' IN A LONELY PLACE, a very disturbing book (& an
excellent one), but I doubt that the same people calling for
the banning of this book would call for the banning of
Hughes' novel for the simple fact that the author was a
woman. It also brings to mind the furor of Brent Easton
Ellis' AMERICAN PSYCHO (which I haven't read) & the film
version directed by Mary Harron (which I have seen and
appreciated, I wouldn't say enjoyed). The novel was condemned
as a misogynist piece of crap, while critics have talked
about the movie as presenting a feminist view of male
privelege and violence. I think the movie does present that
critique of patriarchy, but whether the book did or not was a
mute point to some because Ellis was a man. I guess I'm
curious whether the same response to Stansberry's THE
CONFESSION would have occurred if it were written under a
female pseudonym.
Max
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