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'If you can imagine Baudelaire, Blake and Kafka getting together to describe America, you are well on the way to Carter's visionary and lurid world' THE TIMES 'Her writing is pyrotechnic' OBSERVER
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'I know nothing. I am a tabula erasa, a blank sheet of paper, an unhatched egg. I have not yet become a woman, although I possess a woman's shape. Not a woman, no: both more and less than a real woman. Now I am a being as mythic and monstrous as Mother herself...New York has become the City of Dreadful Night where dissolute Leilah performs a dance of chaos for Evelyn. But this young Englishman's fate lies in the arid desert, where a many-breasted fertility goddess will wield her scalpel to transform him into the new Eve. New York has become the City of Dreadful Night where dissolute Leilah performs a dance of chaos for Evelyn. But this young Englishman's fate lies in the arid desert, where a many-breasted fertility goddess will wield her scalpel to transform him into the new Eve. THE PASSION OF NEW EVE is an extraordinary journey into the apocalyptic vision of the author Lorna Sage called 'The boldest of English writers'.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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It makes me sad to only give an Angela Carter novel only three stars, as I expect she was one of the greater writers of the last century. The Passion of New Eve, though, is just a bit silly. It drowns in symbolism, there's not much continuity, the main character is just whisked from one situation to another, the man as a woman as a man thing is not new or interesting or revelatory or meaningful (Shakespeare was doing it). A man, turned into a woman, is subjected to the same treatment of his new gender by his old. It's not exactly an earth-shattering idea
The Passion of New Eve is self-indulgent and unsatisfying. It's fine to the follow the plot from one end to the other, but by the end the flights of fancy become ridiculous, the meaning void. It's a shame, because the first section, in the apocalyptic version of New York under subject of destruction, is brilliant.
The Passion of New Eve is self-indulgent and unsatisfying. It's fine to the follow the plot from one end to the other, but by the end the flights of fancy become ridiculous, the meaning void. It's a shame, because the first section, in the apocalyptic version of New York under subject of destruction, is brilliant.
23 of 25 people found the following review helpful
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One of the sad consequences of Angela Carter's political stance is that her work will be read under the analytical microscope, just as I read this book the first time round. Regardless of any such speculative dissection, it is a beautiful, warm, subtly erotic story and in a league of its own. It is more likely to appeal to the unselfconscious, more adventurous reader.
20 of 22 people found the following review helpful
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Angela Carter's novel Passion of New Eve is an intelligent discourse centred around ideas of gender as a performance and gender assignment. By the end of the novel names and gender roles are so obscured and blurry that they become obsolete, the 'act' of 'being' is nothing more than a performance like that of the famous actress.
Tristessa is the ultimate figure of feminine masochism, but isn't all that she seems, neither is Englishman Evelyn who later becomes Eve - Mother's mythic vision of the ultimate woman modelled on the playboy centrefold...
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Hilarious!
I think this book is hilarious! Angela Carter is witchy and witty and scary and gross and magical...she fluctuates beautifully though. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Arawly
A Weird Wonder
`The Passion of New Eve' starts as it means to go on with the rather bizarre opening sentence `The last night I spent in London, I took some girl or other to the movies and,... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Simon Savidge Reads
A Wonderful Hallucinatory Vision Of An Apocalyptic Future
Angela Carter wrote many amazing books, and this is certainly one of them. She was highly articulate and visionary in her espousal of feminism, and this book explores an... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Clifford
not her best work
TPONE is Angela Carter at her most self indulgent. The central premise is glaringly obvious - misogynistic man becomes beautiful woman, meets childhood movie star crush, is abused... Read more
Published on 17 Jun 2009 by J. Turner
surreal feminist fable
"The Passion Of New Eve" is a wild and dangerous ride through aspects of human experience that can be explored only via the over-the-top, surrealistic methods Angela Carter is... Read more
Published on 1 Sep 2006 by jam.min.man
Infuriating read
This started off very well, with lots of energy and excitement (hence the 2 star rating), even though some of the scenes were quite gut-wrenching. Read more
Published on 25 Aug 2004
Weird and wonderful.
This novel is pure fantasy and the plot very wacky. It tells the story of an Englishman during some very interesting developments in his life including a forced sex change. Read more
Published on 1 Oct 2003 by Reader
What it means not what it says
Many of Angela Carter's books have their strength more in their meaning than in the story. TPONE is one of these- the plot being bitty and some of it superfluous. Read more
Published on 21 Nov 2002 by Alex Magpie
an incisive view of gender & the biology-is-destiny debate.
The novel is throughout an exposition of the postmodern debate of gender construction as a social condition. Read more
Published on 19 Nov 2000
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