Temptation: A User’s Guide

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

Lush Library Recommends: Anna James’ Books for 2018Variations and fugue on the theme of obsessionVesna Main disturbs our self-image as educated, reasonable and ironic people who read modernist fiction. She disturbs us because we recognise ourselves in her obsessive and bloody-minded characters as they are pushed to the extreme. But they are only too human and seek love, just like us.This is a collection of twenty short stories of different lengths and written in a variety of styles. Main writes about characters whose passion borders on obsession and who are seeking love and companionship but are doomed to remain alone, with their sense of personal failure as the only company.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-01-15
Mått:129 x 198 x 13 mm
Vikt:170 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Salt Modern Fiction
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Salt Publishing
ISBN:9781784631284

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Mer om författaren

Vesna Main was born in Zagreb, Croatia. She has a degree in Comparative Literature and a PhD in Elizabethan Studies from the Shakespeare Institute. Her works include the short story collection Temptation (Salt, 2018), the novella Bruno and Adèle (Platypus Press, 2021), and the novels Good Day? (Salt, 2019), shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize, Only A Lodger … And Hardly That (Seagull Books, 2020) and Waiting for A Party (Salt, 2024). Her writing explores the formal possibilities of the novel.

Recensioner i media

In the opening pages of Vesna Main’s short story collection we meet two women – both objects of the male gaze but under very different circumstances. The first story references EastEnders, the second the Salon des Refuses, challenging the reader’s moral perception and demonstrating the nuances of consent. Themes like these emerge throughout the otherwise disconnected 20 stories in the Croatian author’s collection. They are introduced with a quote by Alberto Manguel from his novel All Men Are Liars: “It is strange that no reader ever understood that my only subject is love.” The desire to be loved runs throughout Temptation, but there are no happily-everafters here.