{"id":100612,"date":"2016-07-21T07:56:19","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T11:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=100612"},"modified":"2016-07-21T12:21:29","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T16:21:29","slug":"tension-minus-the-genitals-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/21\/tension-minus-the-genitals-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Tension Minus the Genitals, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_100618\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/masochism.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-100618\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100618\" class=\"wp-image-100618\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/masochism.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/masochism.jpg 790w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/masochism-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/masochism-768x604.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-100618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From the cover of <em>Exquisite Masochism<\/em>.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>If there exists, as Susan Sontag once insisted, a \u201cterrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things,\u201d nobody seems to have warned John Gruen. Born in France, in 1926, Gruen (n\u00e9 Jonas Grunberg) fled Hitler and then Mussolini before landing in New York in 1939, where he learned English by watching movies. Gruen, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/20\/books\/john-gruen-cultural-renaissance-man-dies-at-89.html\" target=\"_blank\">who died on Tuesday<\/a>, spent his seventysomething years on this continent as a book buyer at Brentano\u2019s, a publicity director at Grove Press, a composer, a photographer, and, in his words, a \u201cwriter, critic, journalist, bon vivant, gadfly, busybody, father, husband, queer, neurotic workaholic,\u201d\u00a0as well as a \u201chandmaiden to the stars, reveler in reflected glory and needy intimate of the super-famous.\u201d In a 2008 interview, he told <em>Time Out<\/em>: \u201cOne of the big problems is that I never really settled on one thing &#8230; I kept them all going, like a juggler, but none of them really took hold in a way that would catapult me as this one creature.\u201d At the same time, he said, \u201cAs Miss Piaf sang, \u2018Je ne regrette rien.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u2019ll claim any person who dies with \u201cRenaissance Man\u201d in the headline of his obituary as an instant culture hero. But after learning that Charles Dickens turned his deceased cat into a letter opener, I&#8217;m beginning to feel a terrible, mean American resentment toward artists who try to make their dead pets do too many things. I can believe, for instance, that Le Corbusier loved his schnauzer Pinceau, just as I can believe that he loved Cervantes\u2019s <em>Don Quixote<\/em> with all his heart. What I cannot bring myself to believe is that the adequate response to both loves was to bind the latter book in the former\u2019s tanned and hairy hide. <a href=\"http:\/\/htl.li\/4vCL3023QtT\" target=\"_blank\">And yet<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>But what do I know? Love is strange like that. Sex is even stranger, especially in Victorian novels, where it often isn\u2019t sex at all. In her new book, <em>Exquisite Masochism<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2016\/07\/exquisite-masochism.html\" target=\"_blank\">Claire Jarvis suggests<\/a> that for many of the fictional characters who had the bad luck to be stuck in a Victorian marriage plot, \u201cwithholding sex \u2026 is a perverse way of having it. In a novelistic milieu where illegitimacy or adultery can be the motives for serious tragedy, a fully developed sexual life presents a frightening threat. By describing erotic life in ways that avoid depicting sexual intercourse in favor of nongenital tension or intensity, novelists can render the frisson of sexual desire without the attendant plot risks.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Andrew O\u2019Hagan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v38\/n15\/andrew-ohagan\/short-cuts\" target=\"_blank\">reporting from the Department of Overlaps<\/a>, finds a shared lesson in Joyce\u2019s <em>Ulysses<\/em> and <em>The People vs. O.J. Simpson<\/em>:\u00a0\u201cthe tendency of reality to give way to the fiction-maker\u2019s abuse.\u201d And yet, he notes, that abuse is also the guarantee of a certain immortality (what was that about exquisite masochism?), which helps explain why \u201cDubliners lining up at Sylvia Beach\u2019s shop in Paris in 1922 were desperate to see if they\u2019d been included, or, Holy Mother of God, left out &#8230; In a way, <em>Ulysses\u00a0<\/em>is like the greatest ever newspaper\u2014all that was fit and unfit to print in one day\u2014and its abundance depends on the idea that nobody is nothing.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If nobody is nothing, does that mean that everybody is something? And if so, what? Or better yet: Who? At <em>New York<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/selectall\/2016\/07\/how-to-spot-whos-the-ubiquitous-non-celebrities-flooding-your-social-media.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lindsey Weber and Bobby Finger visit Whoville,<\/a> a social-media limbo that often appears more insubstantial than the one Dante devised in the fourth canto of the <em>Inferno:<\/em>\u00a0\u201cNow that we\u2019ve all been thrown together on\u2014and get our news from\u2014enormous social platforms with seamless, instantaneous sharing, it\u2019s more likely than ever that we\u2019ll be confronted with stories about people who sound made up. The traditional A-list-to-D-list hierarchy no longer makes sense when people whose names you\u2019ve never heard before are trending on a social networks with hundreds of millions of users. Instead, the subjects of gossip coverage can be divided into two categories: Whos (as in: *furrows brow* Who?) and Thems (as in: \u2018Oh, them.\u2019)\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there exists, as Susan Sontag once insisted, a \u201cterrible, mean American resentment toward a writer who tries to do many things,\u201d nobody seems to have warned John Gruen. 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