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Carregando... Taboo: A Legend Retold from the Dirghic of Sævius Nicanor, with Prolegomena, Notes, and a Preliminary Memoir (1921)de James Branch Cabell
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HTML: In 1919, American writer James Branch Cabell caused a stir with the publication of his racy, uproariously hilarious medieval allegory Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice. Almost immediately, the novel drew the ire of censors, and Cabell soon found himself being prosecuted for indecency. Taboo is Cabell's fictionalized response to the kerfuffle, and it is brimming with his keen insight and witty barbs. .Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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The sword and spear and staff were in reference to Chapter 22 of Jurgen, "As to a Veil They Broke," which Cabell had in large measure lifted from the Gnostic Mass of Aleister Crowley, and Cabell also mentioned these weapons in his later "Judging of King Jurgen" episode, where the tumblebug Philistine prosecutor indicted Jurgen as "indecent for reasons of which a description would be objectionable to me, and which therefore I must decline to reveal to anybody."
The entirety of Taboo is an attack on hypocritical pearl-clutching regarding sex. Its satire is constructed around a conceit in which eating (a human activity no more essential than sex, if perhaps more frequent) receives the sort of conversational proscription that Cabell's contemporaries sought to impose on sex. Still, an appreciative reader must admit that such constraints led Cabell to write some very entertaining prose. Such writing is not limited to the absurdities of Taboo and the literature around Jurgen, and it includes the clever and hilarious encounters with the cult of the Holy Nose of Lytreia and that of the shaggy goddess Koleos Koleros in Something About Eve.
Anthony Comstock figures in Taboo as "St. Anthony Koprologos" and Sumner is himself "John the Scavanger." The set-upon protagonist of Taboo is not Jurgen but the Cabell alter-ego Horvendile, whose writings are "suspected of encroachment upon gastronomy" (30). Throughout the text, the reader may profit further by converting references to eating back into references to sex, for another, more familiar-seeming, but still equally absurd story.
Even though it concludes with a lament for the persistence of moralistic censorship, Taboo was a very amusing victory lap for Cabell and McBride.