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Spanking the Maid (Coover, Robert)
by: Robert Coover

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780802135407
ISBN: 0802135404
Label: Grove Press
Manufacturer: Grove Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 112
Publication Date: December 18, 1997
Publisher: Grove Press
Sales Rank: 675838
Studio: Grove Press

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'Though Coover's message is bleak, his delivery is wonderfully comic' (Bharati Mukherjee, 'The Globe & Mail' (Toronto)) in this spare, tantalizing, and perfect book, named by Daphne Merkin in 'The New Yorker' as one of her 'favorite' S/M books.

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- Not an etude, but better
Taking a cue from Raymond Queneau's "Exercises in Style," and his own short stories featured in "Pricksongs and Descants," what would seem to be only an experiment develops into a real commentary on self-reference and post structuralism. Coover's treatment of the master-slave, dominant-submissive relationship serves to show the sado-masochistic exchange that exists in language when that language becomes "meta" language, or language about language. In this way all "criticism" is "criticized," begging the question: if meta language is sado-masochistic, what is meta-meta language?

The novel also works despite its subject matter-- if Coover had chosen some other setting, one could still delight in the way he weaves repitition into an ongoing cascade, each permutation the same and wholly different. Chaos theory as literary genre? Now who's being sado-masochistic?

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- Old fashioned spanking
I did not find this book particularly erotic, and it was plotless to me.

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- Clever but light-weight exercise
Coover's brief tale takes a paper-thin premise and runs it right into the ground--yes, it's yet another one of those self-indulgent, self-conscious post-modernist novels seldom enjoyed by anyone who isn't an undergraduate English major. It's a very short book that you will likely wish were shorter. But though the plot goes (by design) nowhere, and the book is stuffed with the kind of affected whimsy employed by writers far too impressed with their own intelligence, there is some witty, bouncy prose to enjoy and a few inspired comic moments. For what it is, it's well put together.

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- It may be lit'rary, but I cannot like it
I did not care for the endless repetition with minor variations. I did not care for the one-sidedness of it all--man gets off, maid is out in the cold. I did not care for the endless repetition with minor variations. One had the feeling someone was trying out a lit'rary exercise and it got published by mistake. One had no sympathy for any one in the book, and one felt one was overcharged.

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