Description
"Need I insist that the only enemy of the mature marriage is monogamy? That anything less than sexual multiplicity . . . is naive?" Thus the central theme of John Hawkes's widely acclaimed The Blood Oranges is boldly asserted by its narrator, Cyril, the archetypal "sex-singer." Likening himself to a white bull on Love's tapestry, he pursues his romantic vision in a primitive Mediterranean landscape. There, two couples mingle their loves in an "Ilyria" that brings to mind the equally timeless countryside of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
Book Details
Format
Hardcover
Pages
242 pages
Language
Italian
Published
Jan 1, 1974
Publisher
Einaudi