Dennis Cooper
Audiobook | Pages: 208 pages Rating: 3.57 | 2055 Users | 119 Reviews
Present Books In Favor Of Closer (George Miles Cycle #1)
| Original Title: | Closer |
| ISBN: | 2867444616 (ISBN13: 9782867444616) |
| Edition Language: | French |
| Series: | George Miles Cycle #1 |
| Literary Awards: | Ferro-Grumley Award for Gay Fiction (1990), Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Gay Men's Fiction (1990) |
Representaion Supposing Books Closer (George Miles Cycle #1)
La beauté de George Miles et son étrange passivité en font l’objet des désirs de son entourage. L’un après l’autre, ces garçons (John, David, Cliff, Alex, Philippe, Steve), produits typiques d’une Amérique moyenne déboussolée, vont le soumettre à leurs fantasmes. Dans une suite d’expériences de plus en plus extrêmes, à la limite du supportable, ils vont essayer, chacun à leur manière, de découvrir ce qui se cache derrière son apparence, ce qui se dissimule à l’intérieur même de cette image, quitte à le chercher littéralement sous la peau...Ce premier roman de Dennis Cooper, publié aux États-Unis en 1989, est une descente terrifiante dans les obsessions de l’Amérique contemporaine, un train fantôme dévalant les pentes du désir et plongeant vers la mort sur fond de rock’n’roll, le récit d’un Sade transporté à Disneyland. Tous repères effondrés, toute morale abolie, ses personnages semblent évoluer dans une dimension parallèle dont le sexe, la drogue et les films d’horreur de série Z seraient les dernières balises. Parmi eux, la figure « angélique » de George apparaît comme le déclencheur qui leur permet de découvrir et de repousser leurs limites.
Itemize Containing Books Closer (George Miles Cycle #1)
| Title | : | Closer (George Miles Cycle #1) |
| Author | : | Dennis Cooper |
| Book Format | : | Audiobook |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 208 pages |
| Published | : | March 1995 by Editions P.O.L. (first published March 3rd 1989) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. LGBT. GLBT. Queer. Horror. Novels |
Rating Containing Books Closer (George Miles Cycle #1)
Ratings: 3.57 From 2055 Users | 119 ReviewsWeigh Up Containing Books Closer (George Miles Cycle #1)
I need to re-read it. I need to re-read it. I need to re-read it.I read Dennis Cooper's Closer years ago after finding it in the library, I honestly don't remember what had happened in the story but I do remember myself thinking it's a damn great queer novel---one of the best I've read ever. The story has a lot of things to do with sexual desire, guy pinning after another guy but can't (or unwilling to) act upon it, unhealthy dreams, unhealthy way of thinking, etc. I seriously need to re-readi burned through 5 dennis coopers in as many days and i'm in no proper state to comment. so, lemme bring to your attention two exemplary goodreaders i came across as i checked out how y'all responded to cooper's extreme punchfucking asseating & ballsniffing. 1. eddie watkins nails what's best about these books. y'see, i'd be content with some obvious booshit like calling out cooper as a postmodern genet but watkins writes this: "The particular obsession in Frisk does originate in a mere
at first I'll admit that I didn't quite know what to do with this book. There are approximately 2 sentences before the first characters introduced begin having sex rather unceremoniously and it often talks about pulling the flesh away from the faces and bodies of young men. And other things it's not polite to just jump in and talk about without warning.When I finished the book I was really impressed with the very open and inconclusive ending which still somehow made me feel as if I'd arrived
weird how this is the first in the george miles cycle and it's the last one in the cycle for me to read. I wish i started with this book then work through them even though they don't fit in story wise. I wish this because i would have been able to see this stunning author grow. Like i did with Bret Easton Ellis. The novel is in the sparse and vague fashion that I have came to love so much, this is the main attraction to any of his works except The Marbled Swarm which was the first novel and
Everyone is empty, everyone is dead inside, seeking that death on the outside or whatever gets them as close to it as they can be without going over the edge. These lines and sentences are empty and hollow, but always with purpose. It's difficult to engage with these characters and accept their actions, but that's precisely what draws you in and keeps you there. You want them to escape these self-inflicted horrors, so you read on in hopes that they do. But when it comes to Dennis Cooper, the
Everyone in Closer is attractive, gay, and twink-like (not to mention middle class and white) - yet consumed by ennui. A parade of James Deans at a Rebel Without a Cause convention. Each chapter takes the perspective of a new narrator, examining their lives through character portraits, but whilst these are well written, they stray too close to being vehicles for existential angst (and Cooper's wry social commentary), rather than being full and living people. Cooper's teens talk and live and fuck
Closer is Dennis Cooper's first novel in a pentology of novels about George Miles, who in this novel is the beloved figure for half a dozen high school boys, all gay and all pretty much cool with it. George gets involved with a middle-aged French man named Philippe, and through that connection travels down a dark road of dangerous, filthy sex that almost gets him killed in the basement of some suburban home.In line with the literary fads that I think produced these stories (in many ways the
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