Margery Kempe by Robert Gluck

Margery Kempe by Robert Gluck

Lust, religious zeal, and heartache come together in this provocative novel about two infatuations, one between a man and his young lover in the late 20th century and another between a 15th-century woman and Jesus Christ.

First published in 1994, Robert Gl ck'sMargery Kempeis one of the most provocative, poignant, and inventive American novels of the last quarter century. The book tells two stories of romantic obsession. One, based on the first autobiography in English, the medievalBook of Margery Kempe, is about a fifteenth-century woman from East Anglia, a visionary, a troublemaker, a pilgrim to the Holy Land, and an aspiring saint, and her love affair with Jesus. It is complicated. The other is about the author's own love for an alluring and elusive young American, L. It is complicated. Between these two Margery Kempe, the novel, emerges as an unprecedented exploration of desire, devotion, abjection, and sexual obsession in the form of a novel like no other novel. Robert Gl ck's masterpiece bears comparison with the finest work of such writers as Kathy Acker and Chris Kraus.This edition includes an essay by Gl ck about the creation of the booktitled"My Margery, Margery's Bob."

Poet, fiction writer, editor, and New Narrative theorist Robert Glück has served as director of San Francisco State's Poetry Center, codirector of the Small Press Traffic Literary Center, and editor for Lapis Press and the literary journal Narrativity. He lives in San Francisco and is a Professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University.

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ISBN 13	9781681374314
ISBN 10	1681374315
Title	Margery Kempe
Author	Robert Gluck
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The New York Review of Books, Inc
Year published	2020-03-10
Number of pages	176
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