7/8/2023 0 Comments Queens by Michael Cunningham![]() But instead of being populated by a cadre of artistic super novas, their crowd is a desultory collection of underachievers, starting with the brothers themselves. The Meeks brothers’ milieu is as emotionally and sexually incestuous as Woolf’s infamous Bloomsbury circle. This sexual and emotional Gordian knot is sundered at the novel’s conclusion, but how and why it’s broken gives the book its narrative arc and central theme: the search for personal autonomy and freedom. While not perverse like Jean Cocteau’s notorious Les Enfants Terribles, their relationship precludes them from truly achieving a similar intimacy with another partner. The book’s central protagonists are the Meeks brothers, Tyler and Barrett, who share an intense brotherly bond. Which brings us to the collection of little bastards who disport themselves in his new novel, The Snow Queen. You can burrow into these little bastards minds and hearts.” ![]() ![]() The novel remains the most effective means of telling a reader about what it’s like to be somebody else. As one critic has sagely noted, his writing shares a similar fixation on the “mental fluctuations that preoccupied Woolf.” For Cunningham, the novel possesses an “interiority no other medium can match. ![]() Dalloway, and he has often commented on his admiration for the work of this towering figure of 20th century fiction. Michael Cunningham is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours, that cunning reboot of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. ![]()
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