“In order to paint Nasreen as a mad woman with a powerful grudge, Lasdun takes an unnecessarily dry and impersonal tone, using supplementary texts on the nature of obsession to further his case. As he goes into his analysis, painting Nasreen as a stalker and himself as a heroic naïf, the more he starts to sound like Humbert Humbert, more complicit than innocent, more culpable than defensible.” Like a Woman Scorned: On James Lasdun’s Give Me Everything You Have by Jessica Freeman-Slade
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“In order to paint Nasreen as a mad woman with a powerful grudge, Lasdun takes an unnecessarily dry and impersonal tone, using supplementary texts on the nature of obsession to further his case. As he goes into his analysis, painting Nasreen as a stalker and himself as a heroic naïf, the more he starts to sound like Humbert Humbert, more complicit than innocent, more culpable than defensible.”

Like a Woman Scorned: On James Lasdun’s Give Me Everything You Have by Jessica Freeman-Slade

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  1. ittybritty150 said: great description = must read
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  3. barretta said: I think you need to reconsider this review. If the genders were reversed, a man who wrote about a woman’s stalking and accused her of “culpability,” comparing her to Humberto Humbert (!), would be crucified- and rightly so. The implications are awful.
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