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Original Title:	Myra Breckinridge/Myron
ISBN:	0394754441 (ISBN13: 9780394754444)
Edition Language:	English

Myra Breckenridge/Myron Paperback | Pages: 417 pages

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Title	:	Myra Breckenridge/Myron
Author	:	Gore Vidal
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 417 pages
Published	:	September 12th 1987 by Vintage Books USA (first published 1968)
Categories	:	Fiction. LGBT. Gay. Novels. Literature. American. GLBT. Queer

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Myra Breckinridge (1968) is a scabrous genderbender satire about an untouchable woman(?) out to claim her fortune from a sleazy Hollywood mogul. If you’re familiar with Gore Vidal’s haughtiness from one of his incalculable TV appearances it might take a moment to settle into this female(?) voice, but once the farcical frolics begin the novel is heap-good-fun. Among the more notorious scenes are Myra’s dildo rape of male chauvinist Rusty, and her failure to achieve Sapphic congress with the defiantly heterosexual Mary-Ann. Seen here in the appalling film version with the perfectly cast Raquel Welch. This book is notable also for Vidal’s use of nouveau roman S-o-C in the mogul’s narrative—his opinion on the French avant-garde was famously low, so what gives, Gore? Five stars. Myron (1974) is the patchy, semi-sci-fi sequel where Myron (the male Myra) is sucked back onto the set of Siren of Babylon, a fictional 1948 movie where his alter-ego Myra wrestles for domination of his/her body, like Michael Caine in Dressed to Kill but with castration instead of murder. Not for the squeamish this one. And largely incoherent, so not for anyone at all, really. Three stars.

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Laugh-out-loud funny. Shocking, vulgar, bawdy. Initially found it intriguing because no, had never read anything like this before. Found Gore Vidal to be clever and initially it held my interest -- picked the book up simply because I wanted to see what Vidal was all about as a esteemed writer of our time. While initially I felt that this was a 4-star work, I definitely dinged it for "the scene" toward the end with Rusty and Myra. Since I don't want a spoiler here, not going to elaborate.....but

Myra Breckinridge (1968) is a scabrous genderbender satire about an untouchable woman(?) out to claim her fortune from a sleazy Hollywood mogul. If youre familiar with Gore Vidals haughtiness from one of his incalculable TV appearances it might take a moment to settle into this female(?) voice, but once the farcical frolics begin the novel is heap-good-fun. Among the more notorious scenes are Myras dildo rape of male chauvinist Rusty, and her failure to achieve Sapphic congress with the

"Or as Diotima said to Hyperion, in Hölderlin's novel, 'It was no man that you wanted, believe me; you wanted a world.' I too want a world and mean to have it.""Is it possible to describe anything accurately? That is the problem set us by the French New Novelists. The answer is, like so many answers to important questions, neither yes nor no. The treachery of words is notorious.""It is impossible to sort out all one's feelings at any given moment on any given subject, and so perhaps it is wise

I will give you one star because your prose is so delightfully bitchy, Gore Vidal- especially the introduction, told from the point of view of "Gore Vidal"- but no more because this book is bad stupid. Like, okay, sure, dumb fluff, sixties queerness, obsessing about the movies of the forties because you're a silly two-dimensional cartoon, all that stuff is great. But, just as you get to write about trans women without doing any research (and therefore just make stuff up, like 'estrogen impedes

Still funny, even though some of the targets of satire are dated, like TV and Nixon. Both of the stories are probably best read together since Myron is the continuation of Myra Breckinridge. The sex and sadistic scenes are quite graphic. Loads of old movie references. Themes of women's and transexual's roles and power in society are salient. "Myron" is either science fiction or psychotic fantasy of the split personality of Myron/Myra. The movie "Myra Breckinridge" is terrible as Gore Vidal says

Fifty years after its original publication, Gore Vidal's comic masterpiece MYRA BRECKINRIDGE still feels fresher than a summer's eve. While an obsessive knowledge of 1940's American cinema certainly enhances the delirious pleasure of experiencing MYRA, its razor-sharp satire of show biz, "aberrant" "lifestyle" "choices", gender politics and pansexual panic seems absolutely contemporary, and is more relevant and necessary than ever. Like CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES. it's timeless, relentless and

Not the second one, that one's not supposed to be any good. Just the first one.