Margery Kempe / by Robert Glück ; introduction by Colm Toibin.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: New york review books classicsPublication details: New York : New York Review Books , c1994, 2020Description: xviii, 170 pages ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781681374314 (paperback)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • FIC GLU 
LOC classification:
  • PS3557.L82 M37 2020
Summary: Lust, religious zeal, and heartache come together in this provocative novel about two infatuations, one between a man and his young lover in the late 20th century and another between a 15th-century maiden and Jesus Christ. Margery Kempe is a tale of romantic obsession. It chronicles two relationships which take place in disparate worlds, separated by five centuries. The failed saint Margery Kempe lived in the fifteenth century, when she wrote what is believed to be the first autobiography. In Robert Glück's Margery Kempe, the author's love for a young man, L., frames the story of Kempe's mythical sexual desire and emotional passion for Jesus.
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Copyright 1994 by Robert Gluck, introduction copyright 2020 by Colm Toibin.

Lust, religious zeal, and heartache come together in this provocative novel about two infatuations, one between a man and his young lover in the late 20th century and another between a 15th-century maiden and Jesus Christ. Margery Kempe is a tale of romantic obsession. It chronicles two relationships which take place in disparate worlds, separated by five centuries. The failed saint Margery Kempe lived in the fifteenth century, when she wrote what is believed to be the first autobiography. In Robert Glück's Margery Kempe, the author's love for a young man, L., frames the story of Kempe's mythical sexual desire and emotional passion for Jesus.

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