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A race for the stolen phallus of a nameless god
- Sales Rank: #935569 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-04-01
- Released on: 2013-03-18
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
“An important work of literature by one of the most consequential novelists of our time.” (Carl Freedman, author of The Age of Nixon)
“This edition of Phallos returns to print a novella exemplary of Delany’s mature aesthetic. The accompanying essays’ detailed exegesis works beautifully in tandem with the experience of reading it, extending the pleasure.” (Tavia Nyong’o, New York University, author of The Amalgamation Waltz)
About the Author
SAMUEL R. DELANY teaches English and creative writing at Temple University and is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, most recently his novel Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. ROBERT F. REID-PHARR is Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and author of Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
A quest within a quest within a quest
By S. Maxey
I read the original back in 2004, and this expanded edition is an even bigger tease: But that's the point.
According to rather stuffy essayist Randy Pedarson, somewhere out there is a lush, exotic picaresque gay pornographic novel named Phallos! Exactly who wrote it when is unclear (and is something Randy wished he knew, because it would increase his pleasure in what is already a favorite book.) The book is hard to find. Indeed, we are reading Pedarson's essay because a man named Adrian Rome twice briefly had possession of a copy and had it snatched from his grip, and this essay that recounts much of the plot and situation of the novel but teasingly leaves out all the explicit sex is all that Adrian has been able to find since.
As an enthusiast of Delany's work in the late 1970s and early 1980s, I experienced something similar around his pornographic novel The Tides of Lust [aka Equinox]. The book had been published briefly and withdrawn. University interlibrary searches showed a handful of copies--all of them housed in the noncirculating special collections sections of distant university libraries. Douglas Barbour teasingly discussed the novel in his book on Delany "Worlds out of Words." Finally I was in grad school at one of those libraries, and a little elf of a freshman I was sometimes flirting but not sleeping with who worked at the library promised to find a way to photocopy the book. It took him almost a year to do so. In that year, the anticipation for the always close but never present book was both frustrating and invigorating. And I sometimes started to doubt that it really existed at all, or that my delightful but fickle young friend would ever follow through on his promise. (That novel has since been republished twice and can now be obtained as an ebook, and besides the old well-worn photocopy, I have two official copies. Though I like the book, it is not nearly as wonderful as the unread text that tantalized me for half a decade and which I half suspect is still out there somewhere in some university library.)
So I empathize with Adrian Rome, and with fussy old Randy Pedarson.
And, in the novel within a novella (or at least the numinous glimpses we get of it through Randy's filter), I identify with Neoptolomus and his journeys in the second century AD that are driven by the secrets around a gold-encrusted phallus stolen from the statue of a nameless, naked, shrouded god (sketched on the cover within a cover of this edition of the book). What secrets it must hold! What lovers it puts into Neoptolomus's path. Early in the novel, Neoptolomus meets the emperor Hadrian and his young lover Antinous, And the novel within the novella spins a web of intrigue around the emperor and his lover--something it can do because so much of the real story of Hadrian and Antinous has been lost to history (or suppressed by those who found gay love unseemly).
I won't give away more. Suffice it to say, this is not a simple and straightforward book. It requires effort from the reader but rewards those labors with eruptions of joy, satisfaction and, yes, tantalizing teasing frustration. The accompanying essays helped enrich the text by throwing glimmers of light on the play of reflections, refractions and scrimmed suggestions scattered through the novella's text. And ultimately the play of desire (and its dark twin, dissatisfaction) throughout the book hints at a path toward finding a kind of life well lived--or at least suggests it is out there if you are willing to stop trying to capture it.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Author/Reader/Narrator/Reviewer?
By Kenneth J. Haass
There are too many complicated references to others and their part in presenting this book. The sexual parts have been "sanitized" so that even the scatalogical parts are nowhere as disgusting as the de Sade classic. But, somehow, the approach and story line made me feel it was just too much effort to get to the end.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Delaney at his best!
By Ralphe Wiggins
Samuel Delany is an amazing writer. He brings an enormous knowledge of history. He brings a deep understanding of how to tell a story. Even though he leaves out all the explicitly sexual, the book is all about sex, gay sex. My appreciation of Delaney is that he never backs away from a subject. He is out there investigating where a situation might take him. And, he makes it interesting.
The setup is that he is telling the story of a lost, highly sexual book but leaving out all of the sex scenes. It works. The book describes how the deleted sex affects the protagonists. Long descriptions of physical activity are not needed to appreciate the human interest.
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