Word: jong
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...employing such a variety of voices, Jong can tell the reader exactly what to think of the story. In the forward, for example, she uses Fleishmann-Stanger to give a "scholarly view" of the novel, telling us that "Any Woman's Blues is a fable for our times...
...interjecting conversation between Sand and Wing throughout the story, Jong claims she will show the reader the process of writing the novel, the struggle between author and subject when the story becomes as real for the writer as her life...
Although Any Woman's Blues employs an interesting technique for giving the author multiple voices and questioning the existence of a singular "I," Jong is all together too self-conscious at times...
...book proposes to detail Sand's quest for self-fulfillment, but Jong sets up an unrealistic dichotomy between self-love and romantic love, making the former emotional and the latter purely orgasmic. The men she loves don't love her, but they do give her multiple orgasms--they take her to Henry Miller's infamous "Land of Fuck...
...this "Land of Fuck" where Jong locates Any Woman's Blues, both as a title and as a concept. While Jong claims that the book "has as its theme a woman's search for a way out of addictive love and toward real selflove," the protagonist continues to flip back and forth between emotional and physical addiction, with a clear bent towards the physical...