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File Size: 1939 KB
Print Length: 520 pages
Publisher: Open Road Media (June 2, 2015)
Publication Date: June 2, 2015
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B00W4LL4AI
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As some reviewers commented, this story is not for everyone. I was not for me, I find it hard to believe anyone actually enjoys reading this. Admittedly, I gave up after only about twenty pages. Samuel R. Delany was one of my favorite science fiction authors some decades ago. I am "straight" and do not find homosexual scenes titillating, but I'm not offended by them either. I would think that homosexuals might be offended by this book as it might lead some people to think that the scenes described are typical. I suppose there are people as strange as the lead character, and perhaps there's something to be said about seeing into such a world, but I'd rather not.
Many years ago this book rocked me and changed my life. I'm very happy to pick up the kindle edition. It's not for everyone. Enormous amounts of explicit and sometimes revolting sex, enormous amounts of explicit and sometimes revolting catharsis. An absolute joy to split your head open with.
as deliberately unhinged as the title suggests, mr delany's wildly hyperbolic fiction explores a historical moment of ecstatic freedom right before it was shutdown drastically &, in many cases, fatally.
I felt this was a courageous book even though much of the subject matter would be considered disgusting to a conventional reader. The author presents many challenges to conventional assumptions about "perversions", reverses racial assumptions and insists on the humanity of the participants in extreme sexual behavior. Though the participants are sometimes in love,the book is very much in contrast with the recent push to normalize homosexuality.
I've been a fan of SRD since I discovered "Stars in my Pocket" in the late 80's, then went on to rediscover his earlier works. Even the first among them ("Jewels of Aptor") is well done, and the way he brings representation to minority orientations is stellar — and was, emphatically, standout in the seventies and eighties. Reading his work transformed, in a fundamental and essential way, the way I related to SF. I realized I, too, could find representation, and continued doing so via le Guin and Tiptree; and that I could produce works of my own that share the traits of representation and legitimacy, rather than introspectives or retrospectives of a cathartic or mournful nature.That said, there were pages, entire pages, of this book I skimmed. I had to.The core of the story plot, solving a two-decades-old murder, is compelling enough. The victim, a philosopher named Timothy Hasler, left behind a trail of work that exists in at least three layers — his formal and incomplete exegesis, his SF writing, and his autobiographical notes on some of his activities. It's clear SRD is mirroring himself, to some extent, in Hasler's character, and seeking through the story to recapitulate some of what Hasler's daily life involved. He does this by having the contemporary character, John Marr, inadvertently retrace Hasler's own life. The circularity is nearly complete, with the exception that Marr's cycle ends at a "higher" or possibly more affirming valence than Hasler's did. I found this structure intriguing. It was some of the steps we have to slog through as readers that pushed my envelope rather profoundly.A writer writes because she or he must. There are stories, characters, words, worlds that need to be expressed. I'm aware of that drive myself, in my own storytelling. I'm aware that some of the topics I touch on may not be everyone's ideals or idylls. In my own work I've tried to bring an authentic humanness and representation to the tale, and I'm pretty sure that's what SRD was doing here — he was representing something with authenticity, as he saw it. To the extent that was his intent, bravo. The trouble was that what began as transgressive became immersive (literally, in many passages, which, yes, is a pun); then it became not inuring, but numbing.I'm really not in a position to judge anyone's intimate or recreational choices (or compulsions). Nor am I out to do so here. As an exposé of certain "fringe" human sexual expressions go, I think "The Mad Man" is frank and fearless. The trouble was it kept breaking me out of the narrative and my suspension of disbelief, partly by its redundant exposition of these activities, and partly because it failed to explain how or why certain fixations might take root in the first place. Yes, there's a passage where dialogue goes into the notion of "gifts from the body", and that serves, I think, as a likely entry point into deeper exploration — but that exploration isn't made. Yes, there is dialogue that exposes at least one character's initiation into "perversity" as some would see it; but that acts more as a description of indoctrination and training, which might well have been the point — but still left me wondering about the hazy lines between normalization, exploration, and mere abuse. There's a little too little cerebration about these activities for my preference.But that, too, may have been SRD's point: That some things are simply too deep to be approached or deconstructed rationally.I think I understand what SRD was about with this story. I think his intent was to engross in the "gross", to the point that, by the time you were finished with the novel, you'd become desensitized. I think in my case he accomplished the goal, but I also think there was an element of gratuity, of overkill, to his approach. Roughly half the prose is nonlyrical, simply extensive descriptions of activity involving "water sports" and coprophilia, including coprophagy and urolagnia, with dialogue that frankly rings a bit hollow, repetitious, and uninspired. I have to believe this was a conscious choice on SRD's part, that he deliberately made the dialogue shallow, clichéd, and vapid. He's too good a writer to do otherwise. But I found that choice disengaging.The burden of following paths of chaos, exploration of what is arguably self-degradation, and even hints of nihilism is heavy in this book, and I can't fault those readers who found themselves unable to finish it. As a fearless look into compulsion, "The Mad Man" is standout. As readable prose, though … it felt more like a lengthy dive into some of the seamier and more exploitative corners of the pornverse. A little less of that would've still allowed the strengths of the tale to be present, while not making the reader feel slightly brutalized, in the end, by the journey.==N.b. The blurb here on Amazon's page is, I think, more than a little inaccurate. The suggestion that "The Mad Man" is representative of "a vanished moment in New York City’s gay history" strikes me as being a gross misrepresentation of what "gay history" involves. Were there people engaging in the activities SRD describes? Certainly. Were they in the majority? Certainly not. Whose history, then, is being described here? Possibly that of some gay men in some parts of NYC (and elsewhere), but assuredly not a general aspect of experiences the majority can relate to. I personally don't care if some people would read this narrative and think it was a depiction of the "conventional" gay "lifestyle" as practiced at any point in history. Such people's prejudices are their own, and anything they find will fit their confirmation bias. It's the false labeling I have trouble with: "The Mad Man" is no more a depiction of baseline gay sexuality than "Fifty Shades of Grey" is a depiction of baseline heterosexual sexuality.
I have been a Delany fan since I first read Dhalgren (that was my introduction). I still need to return to Dhalgren every so often. I went and read as many of Delany's sci-fi novels as I could find. Then a few years ago while looking through a used book bin, I found The Mad Man; since it was authoried by Delany, I bought it without knowing anything about it. My cats immediately swarmed the book (I really hate to think what they smell). Yes, much of the sexual encounters are fairly graphic and not something I am into, Delany is such a damn good writer you have to keep reading. He gives you insight into a world most of us would never know about (not that we want to) yet all of his people, when you scrap off the dirt and grime, are just people. I have the book somewhere, had to put it "in a safe place" where the cats couldn't get to it but now I don't know where that place is, have to tear up my apartment to look for it. I probably won't re-read it, just a bit more then I need to know about some of the NYC gay preferences, but I have friends who might find it fascinating and enlightening.
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