Adventures of Lucky Pierre - Brossura

Coover, Robert

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0802140416 ISBN 13: 9780802140418

Casa editrice: Grove Pr, 2004

Riassunto

In the heart of Cinecity, the frozen meta-city where Lucky Pierre plies his trade, Lucky Pierre, a part clown, part porn star who is literally defined by his films, takes on a wide range of sexual roles at the behest of his nine muse-directors. By the author of Briar Rose and Gerald's Party.

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L'autore:

Robert Coover is the award-winning author of fourteen books, most recently Briar Rose (Grove, 1996) and Ghost Town (Holt, 1998). He has won fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and has been the recipient of the William Faulkner Award, the American Academy of Arts & Letters Award, and other honors. His other works of fiction include John’s Wife, The Public Burning, Pinocchio in Venice, and Gerald’s Party. He teaches writing at Brown University, with a concentration in electronic and experimental fiction, and is widely known as ?the guru of hypertext fiction.” He divides his time between Providence, RI, London, and Barcelona.

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Lucky Pierre is the most famous man in Cinecity, where pornography is the basis of social norms and the mayoral motto is "Pro Bono Pubis." He walks to work (the studio where his films are made) in the winter cold, icicles tipping his constantly exposed and engorged penis, and every small interaction provides another opportunity for exercising his prurient art. This vision of a sexualized universe is unique in that social power (and the power to direct, rather than merely appear in, these sex-films) belongs entirely to women. Each chapter (or "reel") of the book is headed with the name of one of nine women (so, in reality, they are muses, but they are also the artists), and each bears her aesthetic stamp--whether the dominatrix mayor, the experimental avant-garde filmmaker, the ribald cartoonist who "reanimates" him with her pen when he has been left by the mayor in a snowbank to freeze, the wife who makes tender home sex movies, etc. Lucky Pierre himself seems to have no free will, indeed, no existence outside his films. He is commanded by these women, and by the overwhelming impulses of his prodigiously endowed organ. The book is a collection of fantasies--a man entering his office instantly begins acrobatically copulating with the receptionist on her desk; a piano teacher administers discipline to his nubile young female students; a castaway discovered by the Nine Muses, who have never seen a man before and quickly begin to test his unfamiliar parts; an engagement party turns into a frenzied bacchanal; a wedding into a sadomasochistic ritual and then a chase scene. But satisfaction is complicated. Pierre is often made ridiculous, a clown as much as a leading man, and always, everything that happens to him is seen; there is no part of his life that is not, potentially, a film. Several times, he attempts to escape, but he is always recaptured and punished--or his "escape" is proven never to be real in the first place. For example, he joins up with the Extars, a guer

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• Editore: Grove Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0802140416
• ISBN 13: 9780802140418
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 416