Published 1986
by Quartet in London .
Written in English
Edition Notes
Translation of, Een magelaten bekentenis.
| Statement | Marcellus Emants ; translated from the Dutch and with a introduction by J.M. Coetzee. |
| Series | Quartet encounters |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | PT5833 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | 193p. ; |
| Number of Pages | 193 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL22383754M |
| ISBN 10 | 0704300230 |
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A Posthumous Confession has as unsympathetic a narrator as one can imagine, and that's part of it's odd power. Therein, too, lies one of the reasons this work continues to be of interest: it was translated by e, and its narrator could, indeed, be straight out of . Termeer, the narrator of A Posthumous Confession, is a twisted man and a troubled one. The emotionally stunted son of a cold, forbidding, and hypocritical father, Termeer has only succeeded in living up to his parents' low expectations when, to his own and others' astonishment, he finds himself wooing a beautiful and gifted woman--a woman whose love he wins. A Posthumous Confession reminded me somewhat of the early stories of Arthur Schnitzel, where we find the same type of introspection brought about by new notions of psychology. It is a pessimistic story, as were most novels by Emants; he also wrote interesting travelogues. The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within U.S. Slave Culture is a book by Vincent Woodard. The book explores the homoeroticism of both literal and figurative acts of human cannibalism that occurred during slavery in the United d examines the sexual nature of documented instances of flesh-eating, and explores the various manners of consumption .
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