Rowan Somerville's top 10 of good sex in fiction
Attributo da The Guardian
10 opere 105,007 libri 1,947 recensioni 3.9
"Most adults are interested in sex. I am. My father was, and said as much to me when he was 92. I suspect that you are too. You're reading this after all. Being so central to much of our lives and mostra altro indeed life itself, it is a valid and important topic for fiction.
"The challenge of writing about sex is to evoke the physicality, the yearning, the counterpoint between magnificent operatic grandiosity and ludicrous bestial grunting – without resorting to cliché. As the American author Elizabeth Benedict wrote: 'A good sex scene is not always about good sex, but it is always an example of good writing.' As an enthusiastic reader and a writer too, my opinion is that it doesn't matter how weird things get as long as it remains original and feels authentic.
"Some of the sex in the books below works as a device for revealing the state of society, some is a device for characterisation; a way of revealing truths about characters that they themselves may not be able to see – but most of it is just about desire, lust and sex itself."
Rowan Somerville – LT author page mostra meno
"The challenge of writing about sex is to evoke the physicality, the yearning, the counterpoint between magnificent operatic grandiosity and ludicrous bestial grunting – without resorting to cliché. As the American author Elizabeth Benedict wrote: 'A good sex scene is not always about good sex, but it is always an example of good writing.' As an enthusiastic reader and a writer too, my opinion is that it doesn't matter how weird things get as long as it remains original and feels authentic.
"Some of the sex in the books below works as a device for revealing the state of society, some is a device for characterisation; a way of revealing truths about characters that they themselves may not be able to see – but most of it is just about desire, lust and sex itself."
Rowan Somerville – LT author page mostra meno
Opera | Etichetta d'ordinamento |
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Lolita (1955) di Vladimir Nabokov | 1 |
Il petalo cremisi e il bianco (2002) di Michel Faber | 2 |
Histoire de l'Oeil (1928) di Georges Bataille | 3 |
La camera di sangue (1979) di Angela Carter | 4 |
L'amante di Lady Chatterley (1928) di D. H. Lawrence | 5 |
Dracula (1897) di Bram Stoker | 6 |
Thongs (1971) di Alexander Trocchi | 7 |
Un giovane americano (1982) di Edmund White | 8 |
Storia di O (1954) di Pauline Réage | 9 |
Piattaforma: nel centro del mondo (2001) di Michel Houellebecq | 10 |
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