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Virginie: Her Two Lives

by John Hawkes

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Hawkes is understandably testy about having his own imagination labeled by a reviewer as "contemptible," and yet there is something unclean about the workings of his mind. No matter what riotous coupling is taking place in barnyard or boudoir, one is always aware of Hawkes conducting the action from the pit, at a sluggish tempo.

added by jburlinson | editNew York Review of Books, James Wolcott (pay site) (Jun 10, 1982)

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Virginie is an 11-year-old girl leading two lives. In the first life, it is 1740 and she is servant and companion to the aristocratic Seigneur. In the second, it is 1945 and Virginie is the young sister of a Parisian taxi driver named Bocage. Her former master is a Pygmalion-styled creator of erotically receptive women, a teacher who raises women of lowly origins to accommodate the tastes of a decadent French nobility. In the latter life, Bocage brings a circle of prostitutes home for his evenings of entertainment.

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