Spanking the Maid
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Book Overview
This spellbinding, impeccable novel tells the story of a master, his maid, and the irresistible ritual that binds them. Each morning, the maid arrives in the master's bedroom with her cleaning... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0394179714
ISBN13:9780394179711
Release Date:January 1982
Publisher:Grove Pr
Weight:0.35 lbs.
Dimensions:8.3" x 0.5" x 5.3"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Not an etude, but better
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Taking a cue from Raymond Queneau's "Exercises in Style," and his own short stories featured in "Pricksongs and Descants," what would seem to be only an experiment develops into a real commentary on self-reference and post structuralism. Coover's treatment of the master-slave, dominant-submissive relationship serves to show the sado-masochistic exchange that exists in language when that language becomes "meta" language, or language about language. In this way all "criticism" is "criticized," begging the question: if meta language is sado-masochistic, what is meta-meta language?The novel also works despite its subject matter-- if Coover had chosen some other setting, one could still delight in the way he weaves repitition into an ongoing cascade, each permutation the same and wholly different. Chaos theory as literary genre? Now who's being sado-masochistic?
A comic-erotic send-up of Nouvelle Vague fiction
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
This elegant, concisely written masturbatory farce, in which similar scenes of a maid's transgression and a master's punishment are played out over and over again, conflates the delicious repetitive nature of erotic fantasy with a send-up of "Last Year at Marienbad"-type fiction--to an effect that is both erotically arousing and hilarious. Coover's greatest tour-de-force and a tiny, but original, masterpiece.
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