- Paperback: 294 pages
- Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (5 Aug 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099288680
- ISBN-13: 978-0099288688
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.7 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,076,248 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Fleshy, beautiful and obscene'
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In this frank and vivid account of sexual awakening, a young woman spending her summer holiday in a seaside town is drawn towards an inevitable sexual encounter with the butcher she is working for.
"From the Paperback edition."
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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful
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wonderfully translated into english from the original french, this short novel is about a young woman who is both attracted to and repelled by the overweight highly sexed butcher she works for. The graphic descriptions of the cuttng of the meat are matched by Ree's incredible literary skills in describing the young womans first sexual encounter with this man. It is an odd combination of ideas but works wonderfully, the imagery and use of language is phenomenal. Once read never forgotten.( this is not a sadistic work in spite of its setting)
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Small perfectly formed and cloven into two halves. This novella deals with the raw smells of flesh as the butcher cleaves his meat whilst whispering salacious comments to the young girl who assists him with chopping the carcass. Meanwhile he enters the butcherwoman strung up like meat, hanging in the freezer in moments of turpitude.
The heroine becomes torn between her art world lover and the deep sexualised world of the hoary old butcher. Surrounded by dead animals and pieces of flesh the world teems between life and death. The overweight butcher plays the pipes of pan to the young womans frenzied imagination as his thoughts and images penetrate her imagination before the final act of entrance is enacted. Anais Nin updated for those who want to travel the coure
The second half of the back deals with nature and sex. The raw smell of the earth, the banging within car doors and humiliation as a form of sexual ecstacy. More imagination than reality, another rompt with the ghost of Anais.
Both halves are a woman strumming a tune to men and making it chime and harks back to Little Birds. This has a greater poetic force which either turns on or off according to the need for the final release. Those who wish to bound ahead to get to the crux will be disappointed as it is the journey along the way that counts not the final release.
Look at the cover for details of what lies inside.
The heroine becomes torn between her art world lover and the deep sexualised world of the hoary old butcher. Surrounded by dead animals and pieces of flesh the world teems between life and death. The overweight butcher plays the pipes of pan to the young womans frenzied imagination as his thoughts and images penetrate her imagination before the final act of entrance is enacted. Anais Nin updated for those who want to travel the coure
The second half of the back deals with nature and sex. The raw smell of the earth, the banging within car doors and humiliation as a form of sexual ecstacy. More imagination than reality, another rompt with the ghost of Anais.
Both halves are a woman strumming a tune to men and making it chime and harks back to Little Birds. This has a greater poetic force which either turns on or off according to the need for the final release. Those who wish to bound ahead to get to the crux will be disappointed as it is the journey along the way that counts not the final release.
Look at the cover for details of what lies inside.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The Butcher, or Le Boucher, was originally written for an erotic story competition. It won, and was later translated into many languages. It is a novella, or even, a novellette, since it is probably around 13,000 words long. In spite of its brevity, it is a fantastic read, but be warned, this is a literary work, and not genre porn. If you are simply after a turn on, you will be disappointed. The language is very poetic, and the author on one page drops punctuation in order to create a sense of breathlessness. The story revolves around a young girl/woman who has fallen for a boy, lost her virginity to him, only to realise she was a passing whim. He hardly knew she existed except as the younger sister of his friend. An art student, she works over the summer in a butcher's shop. There she meets the butcher of the title, a large overweight man who whispers naughty things to her behind the counter. In the summer heat, and amid the raw flesh of the meat, she is drawn into his fantasies, and begins to slough off her love for Daniel. The poetic prose of this book has been faithfully translated from the original French, and bears a great resemblance to the English translation style of Marguerite Duras' classic short autobiographical novel, The Lover or L'Amant. So if you like Duras' The Lover, you might also like The Butcher, and vice versa.
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