Jonathan Kemp

Twentysix (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Crafted around twenty-six extraordinary erotic encounters, this highly charged work is a powerful meditation on the pursuit of pleasure. In each chapter, titled after a letter of the alphabet, an anonymous narrator details his experiences, travelling to cruising grounds and sex clubs, exploring the boundaries of sex, desire, pleasure, and the body, while reflecting on the limits of language and the act of writing. In the tradition of Georges Bataille, Kathy Acker and Jean Genet, these pieces take us to places language doesn’t often go. Kemp powerfully stages a series of anonymous encounters, describing the relentless pursuit of sexual pleasure with luminous intensity, while at the same time facing the impossibility of capturing the moments he describes. This is a bold and challenging work, unashamedly sensual and searching. Kemp beautifully counterpoises explicit description with a searing interrogation of the extreme measures taken in the quest for sexual fulfillment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Myriad Editions
• Seitenzahl: 110
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781908434043
• Artikelnr.: 37984184

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Kemp writes fiction and non-fiction and teaches creative writing at Middlesex University. His first novel, London Triptych (Myriad, 2010), was shortlisted for the inaugural Green Carnation Prize and won the Authors¿ Club Best First Novel Award. His highly praised collection of short stories, Twentysix (Myriad, 2011), is a milestone of literary erotica in the tradition of Georges Bataille and Jean Genet. His second novel, Ghosting was published to widespread critical acclaim by Myriad in 2015. His fiction and non-fiction has appeared in Chroma, the online queer literary journal Polari, Brand Magazine, and in the anthologies Best Gay Erotica 2010 and Best Gay Short Stories 2010. Non-fiction works include The Penetrated Male (2012) and Homotopia?: Gay Identity, Sameness and the Politics of Desire (2015, both Punctum Books).