Hogg (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
The narrator of Hogg is a Huck Finn-like youngster caught in society's most sinister seams-but unlike Huck, he passes no moral judgments on the violence he takes part in . . .
Hogg is the story of a man-a depraved trucker named Franklin Hargus, whom the...
Hogg is the story of a man-a depraved trucker named Franklin Hargus, whom the...
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The narrator of Hogg is a Huck Finn-like youngster caught in society's most sinister seams-but unlike Huck, he passes no moral judgments on the violence he takes part in . . .
Hogg is the story of a man-a depraved trucker named Franklin Hargus, whom the people he works for call Hogg-and of the nameless boy who tells the story of three days of unspeakable sexual violence and devastation, which, together, they initiate in a small seaside American city in the middle of the last century. Hogg is a towering brute who makes his living as a rapist for hire. By the end of a series of vicious attacks, kidnappings, and mass murders, the reader will wonder who is more corrupt: the man or the boy.
Samuel R. Delany completed his first draft of Hogg within a day, if not within hours, of the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City and revised it over the next four years, though it was not released until 1995.
Hogg is the story of a man-a depraved trucker named Franklin Hargus, whom the people he works for call Hogg-and of the nameless boy who tells the story of three days of unspeakable sexual violence and devastation, which, together, they initiate in a small seaside American city in the middle of the last century. Hogg is a towering brute who makes his living as a rapist for hire. By the end of a series of vicious attacks, kidnappings, and mass murders, the reader will wonder who is more corrupt: the man or the boy.
Samuel R. Delany completed his first draft of Hogg within a day, if not within hours, of the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City and revised it over the next four years, though it was not released until 1995.
Autoren-Porträt von Samuel R. Delany
Samuel R. Delany published his first novel, The Jewels of Aptor, at the age of twenty. Throughout his storied career, he has received four Nebula Awards and two Hugo Awards, and in 2008 his novel Dark Reflections won the Stonewall Book Award. He was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2002, named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 2014, and in 2016 was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. Delany's works also extend into memoir, criticism, and essays on sexuality and society. After many years as a professor of English and creative writing and director of the graduate creative writing program at Temple University, he retired from teaching in 2015. He lives in Philadelphia with his partner, Dennis Rickett.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Samuel R. Delany
- 2015, 257 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Open Road Media
- ISBN-10: 1504011570
- ISBN-13: 9781504011570
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.06.2015
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Pressezitat
“There’s no question that Hogg by Samuel R. Delany is a serious book with literary merit.” —Norman Mailer“Hogg is a truly significant book. It is distasteful, raw, and upsetting; it also treats some of the sexual taboos that Americans do not want addressed in either art or politics. Hogg is an artistic triumph, as well as a political one.” —The Review of Contemporary Fiction
“Hogg is a truly experimental novel. . . . A minimalist testing of a single hypothesis. It wants to know to what limits appetite can suffuse consciousness before that consciousness stops being human.” —Lambda Book Report
“Hogg is a terrifying journey into the body and soul of a man who embodies all the nighmarish excesses of our century, a creature as much a part of the fever-dream of American life in the 90s as Jeffrey Dahmer. . . . [We read] of such monsters as Delany’s Hogg with pity and horror.” —Elizabeth Hand
“Hogg is the only novel I have ever rejected solely because of its sexual content.” —Maurice Girodias
“Hogg [is] the most shocking novel published in the twentieth century.” —Larry McCaffery, Columbia University Encyclopedia of the American Novel
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