![]() ![]() What I mean is that The Argonauts disrupts not only our preconceptions but also Nelson’s, the bromides and easy binaries by which identity and commitment are so often defined. There you have it: a magnificent anti-memoir of the brain and of the heart, in which intellect and lust and love-the mind-body problem-become blurred and interwoven in the most vivid ways. Does it get any better? What’s your pleasure? you asked, then stuck around for an answer.” “You had Molloy by your bedside,” Nelson recalls, referring to Samuel Beckett’s 1951 novel, “and a stack of cocks in a shadowy unused shower stall. ![]() This is clear from the opening paragraph, which describes an early sexual encounter with the author’s partner, Harry Dodge. ![]() How to describe Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts? To a very real extent, it is a love story, if an unconventional one. ![]()
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