Written OnThe Body 写在身体上

Acclaim for JEANETTE WINTERSON’S Written on the Body “Arresting … a lush story of passion … an affirmation of the freedom to cast off all prescriptions: social, moral, existential, sexual—and in the writing—aesthetic and literary. We are cut off from our assumptions and groomed to enter Winterson’s unsettling polymorphous world.” —Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review “Winterson’s skill with fable and fantasy is not just brilliant plumage in this book.… [Her] representations of desire go far beyond male/female; she moves past all dichotomies into a register of sexual imagery where the body is weapon, flora, fauna, weather, animal, geography, prison, food, light, nest, jagged edge: it is the body as whole world. In this novel she found the spot where the Great Chain of Being breaks and none of us know what will become of us, or where we fit.” —Village Voice “Brilliant … Stunning passages of romantic rapture [and] anguished tenderness. Written on the Body takes on a certain cinematic splendor.” —Boston Globe “A bold, controversial new novel … the story of a white hot passion. [Winterson] is regularly singled out as the most talent......