{"id":36227,"date":"2012-07-27T12:47:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T16:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=36227"},"modified":"2012-07-27T13:06:12","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T17:06:12","slug":"what-we%e2%80%99re-loving-dorian-gray-sex-with-immortals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/27\/what-we%e2%80%99re-loving-dorian-gray-sex-with-immortals\/","title":{"rendered":"What We\u2019re Loving: Dorian Gray, Sex with Immortals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/bookshop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-36238\" title=\"bookshop\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/bookshop-293x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/bookshop-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/bookshop.jpg 341w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last Thursday, finding myself with an hour to kill in London, I stopped into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lutyensrubinstein.co.uk\/bookshop-homepage\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lutyens &amp; Rubinstein bookstore<\/a> in Notting Hill. No<em> Paris Review<\/em> (sigh), but I did pick up the Summer issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/foxedquarterly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Slightly Foxed<\/em><\/a>, a quarterly devoted to little essays about people\u2019s favorite books. The clerk claimed it\u2019s the most popular lit mag they stock. And it\u2019s easy to see why. <em>Crome Yellow<\/em>, <em>The Lost Oases<\/em>, <em>The Elegies of Quintilius<\/em>, and a guide to British sea birds give some idea of the miscellany. Read one issue back to back and you could cross every conceivable reader off your Christmas list. <strong>\u2014Lorin Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How, exactly, do a human and a god have sex? For Elizabeth Costello, the eponymous protagonist of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780142004814\" target=\"_blank\">J. M. Coetzee\u2019s novel<\/a>, it is less a question of metaphysics than of mechanics. \u201cBad enough to have a full-grown male swan jabbing webbed feet into your backside while he has his way, or a one-ton bull leaning his moaning weight on you,\u201d she thinks. But when the god does not change form, how does the human body accommodate itself to \u201cthe blast of his desire\u201d? What makes the passage so interesting is not only Costello\u2019s amusing speculations on the impracticality of cosmic coupling but the way such a question allows Coetzee to reflect on the whole messy business of the god-human relationship. The gods may never die, he suggests, but that doesn\u2019t mean they know how to live.<strong> \u2014Anna Hadfield<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When Oscar Wilde\u2019s <em>The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/em> first appeared in serialized form in <em>Lippincott\u2019s<\/em> <em>Monthly Magazine<\/em>, the author must have been dismayed; fearing immorality charges, his American editors had changed large portions of the novel. Most likely working from this bowderlized version, Wilde altered the text even further before its 1890 publication in book form. As we know, even this sanitized text was sensational\u2014and explicit enough to serve as evidence of Wilde\u2019s corruption in his disastrous libel trial a few years later.<\/p>\n<p>Now, for the first time, we can read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780674066311\" target=\"_blank\">the version that Wilde intended<\/a>. Working from the author\u2019s original manuscript and his handwritten notes, editors have restored not only excised content but original spellings (many of which were Americanized) and fixed some unintentional typesetting errors that have been allowed to stand since it was first copied by a London typing service. Not surprisingly, the original version is more frank about homosexual themes, which are heavily coded in the 1890 edition, but the editors also toned down hint of heterosexual relationships, removing explicit reference to Dorian\u2019s \u201cmistresses.\u201d Both the text and Nicholas Frankel\u2019s introduction make for fascinating reading. <strong>\u2014Sadie Stein<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This week, I reread Chekhov\u2019s <em>Uncle Vanya <\/em>in preparation for seeing the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nycitycenter.org\/tickets\/productionnew.aspx?performanceNumber=6581\" target=\"_blank\"> Sydney Theater Company\u2019s production<\/a> of the play this weekend. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever appreciated what an ode to entropy it is, a gathering of utterly inert characters\u00a0briefly\u00a0galvanized into action, only to resolve into their earlier, soporific state, all the worse for it. <strong>\u2014Nicole Rudick<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A few years ago while in Providence, I came across a sale on NYRB Classics at Symposium Books and rightly picked up a good dozen (or two). Among them was Geoffrey Household\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/books\/imprints\/classics\/rogue-male\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Rogue Male<\/em><\/a>. Your quintessential \u201cthe hunter becomes the hunted\u201d thriller (as well as the inspiration for the <em>Rambo <\/em>series), it features a marksman who attempts to assassinate an unnamed central European dictator (one can safely assume Hitler.) When caught he flees and is chased across Europe by various agents. Nothing original there, but it\u2019s the shift away from this \u201cspy and counterspy\u201d business where the book shines. As the marksman goes underground in the English countryside (literally; he lives for weeks in an animal burrow) he is forced to confront his past, his beliefs, his politics\u2014and finally his enemy. As history tells us, a man cannot remain the hunted forever. Try to get that kind of psychological insight in James Patterson.<strong> \u2014Justin Alvarez<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a person comes and talks to you and, listening to him, you feel he is boring you, then he is sick and needs psychiatric treatment. But if he sustains your interest, no matter how grave his distress or conflict, then you can help him all right.\u201d This was the advice that D. W. Winnicott gave to a roomful of Anglican priests in 1970. I took this\u2014and much else\u2014to heart reading <em>Winnicott<\/em>, Adam Phillips\u2019s study of the great child psychiatrist.<strong> \u2014L.S.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m not sure anymore what the Olympics taught me about faux-religious sacrificial rituals, or about sportsmanship or dedication or competition.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grantland.com\/story\/_\/id\/8199717\/breaking-olympism-unraveling-addict-lifelong-obsession-olympics\" target=\"_blank\">Louisa Thomas\u2019s meditation on the elemental appeal of the Olympic Games<\/a> is essential reading\u2014especially today.<strong> \u2014S.S. <br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><p>[tweetbutton]<\/p>\n<p>[facebook_ilike]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday, finding myself with an hour to kill in London, I stopped into Lutyens &amp; Rubinstein bookstore in Notting Hill. 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