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The Passion of New Eve (Virago modern classics) (Paperback)

by Angela Carter (Author)
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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Virago Press Ltd; New edition edition (27 Aug 1992)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0860683419
  • ISBN-13: 978-0860683414
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.4 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 22,434 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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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5.0 out of 5 stars Passionately Postmodern!, 21 Feb 2003
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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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4.0 out of 5 stars Some like to analyse it, others like to read it!, 23 April 2003
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.
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4.0 out of 5 stars What it means not what it says, 21 Nov 2002
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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. But the plot is not really what it is about- the idea of a mysogynistic man being turned into a woman then suffering the treatment he himself would have formally condoned is a strong premise and one which naturally throws up many questions in itself.
Essentially very deep TPONE fails where its meandering plot leads it astray. This is more of a book for Carter-holics than a goof place to start. The Magic Toyshop is a softer introduction and The Insane Desire Machines of Dr Hoffman a similar work to TPONE but a less infuriating read.
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1.0 out of 5 stars 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 28 days ago by Jayne M. Turner

4.0 out of 5 stars 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
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4.0 out of 5 stars 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
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4.0 out of 5 stars 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
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