![]() Its motivating force is not love but obsession, and the characterisation of Louise is so slender that she becomes a hook on which to hang the narrator's narcissistic self-examination. ![]() This is another example of the way in which the novel undercuts itself, exposing feelings quite different from those it ostensibly describes. The concealed gender of the narrator is a tiresome conceit from a character whose contemptuous misandry hardly admits the possibility that she is anything but female it will be interesting to see whether Winterson's translators, faced with intractably gendered Latin languages, adopt the ponderous circumlocutions necessary to maintain the pretence. This degree of self-assurance is typical of Written on the Body, and a worrying feature of a novel which constantly seems to be doing something other than it claims. It may be that Winterson is edging towards a different truth - that it is easier to write about love when an affair is finished - but her opening leaves no room for dissension. ![]() ![]() Jeanette Winterson sets out the theme of her new novel in its first sentence why is the measure of love loss? This poses a problem for any reader who disagrees with her premise, the Romantic notion that we truly value something only when we no longer possess it. ![]()
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