Briar Rose & Spanking the Maid
A Literature book. Two novellas. The writer essentially wrote a bunch of paragraphs (albeit...
These two novellas by the groundbreaking, fearless, and immeasurably influential Robert Coover are dirty, funny and brilliant. In Briar Rose a sleeping beauty is trapped in an enchantment for a hundred years, dreaming of stories in which someone like her wakes up disappointed, or becomes a mother, or is stripped and defiled. And, as she dreams, outside, failed princes die and hang their remains on the thorns of a briar hedge. In Spanking the Maid a maid and her master are each committed to their own hard service: she, attempting to perform her simple duties without error; he, supplying punishment by rod, belt, hairbrush, whip, cane and slipper when she inevitably fails. These tales of desire are Coover at his most darkly playful.
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Two novellas. The writer essentially wrote a bunch of paragraphs (albeit they were very well written) and just repeated them over and over with slight tweaks. The first story, 'Briar Rose' was engaging until about the half-way point when I realized the plot was NEVER going to move forward. When the second story started to repeat itself... So and so, a writer writes, with something in mind, show AND even (sometimes) tell, but readers can AND do, pick/choose sometimes go, meh, ok. There is, though, something Beckettian going on. More like blisters in the thorn patch and go spank the monkey. The movie "The Secretary" is quite similar in scenario with the domineering boss... "I really want to try to like this"... but cannot.To frame a point, for those who say that Briar Rose and Spanking the Maid try to be avant-garde in their approach to sexuality in literature, but fail for modern times, Briar Rose was first published in 1996 and Spanking the Maid first made an appearance in 1982; in their time, perhaps...
