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'I have quite changed my mind. I am going to run away and become a boy.' In these three stories, written by Djuna Barnes under the pseudonym Lydia Steptoe, three characters find themselves on the brink of a sexual awakening - accompanied by guns, whips, and worldly innuendo. A fourteen-year-old girl plans to become 'a virago', until her mother intercepts her first tryst by dressing up as her male lover. A boy of the same age is lured into the forest by his father's mistress. A woman of forty falls in love and longs to kill herself, so unbearable is the return of the youth she thought she wanted. 'Alice', she tells herself, 'be a man.' Barnes makes gender and desire seem slippery and joyful - and makes the fictional Lydia Steptoe seem like a writer for our time. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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The three stories collected here are "The Diary of a Dangerous Child", "The Diary of a Small Boy" and "Madame Grows Older: A Journal at the Dangerous Age". They are written with the characteristic verve and wit of Barnes's prose, sustained by a dark humour and a queer sexual charge. The first two stories, to my mind, are the most successful, capturing the strangeness and uncertainty of adolescence desire. In the first story, we meet a teenage girl who intends to lure a Brazilian diplomat to her garden at midnight to teach him a lesson; in the second story a teenage boy takes his father's gun into the woods to protect his cousin from 'water snakes'.
This is a lovely pocket edition and I hope it is the sign that further out of print works by Barnes might be published. ( )