Written on the Body: Lambda Literary Award

Incredible story- Wonderful and telling and gripping. SO many emotions flowing through the novel with such relate able characters. This review is my full and honest opinion after testing and examining all aspects of this product in my own home, for my own use. My goal in reviewing products is to help others, like you, in their search for the best products on Amazon. If I give the product a five star review, that means that I am extremely happy with the product. Five stars means that the product has gone beyond and above my expectations and I would have paid/will pay in the future the full price plus shipping for this product. I will definitely continue to purchase five star products for myself as well as recommend them to my friends and family. Four stars: If I give the product four stars, this means that I really like the product and I have found a good use for it. The product function as intended and serves it's purpose well. It is likely that I would purchase this product again in the future. Three stars: If I rate a product at three stars, that means that I am satisfied with the product, but I do not believe it is the best in its product area, therefore I would definitely search for other products within that area the next time I purchase. Two Stars: If I give the product two stars, that means that i am not impressed. I would not purchase the product again. There maybe elements of the product that are not exactly defective, but are not desirable. One Star: If I give the product one star, I am unsatisfied with the product/does not work/it is defective. I would definitely not purchase this product again.

Bought for college English reading

In Written on the Body Jeanette Winterson takes on some fundamental questions: What is love? What is marriage? What do fidelity and responsibility really mean? It is often in examining the extremes that we can find answers. The narrator lives in the extreme - profound restless, intense eagerness, unequivocal passion, turbulent relationships. What can a soul want more than passion - the intense consuming passion that elevates love and life to the umpteenth degree? Passion is the fire of life. Whereas many of us might long for that level of passion and intensity, Winterson not only describes it, but also takes up the question of its sustainability. How can it be sustainable? Can it? Then there are other questions: What does it really mean to truly love another? Should one let the loved one go if it saves their life? If so, can one decide for another? If so, what is life without love? In her brilliant narration, astute observations, sensual descriptions and philosophical musings, Written on the Body celebrates the sensual body and feeds the philosophical mind. Whether it provides answers or not, that is a more complicated question. After all, as Susan Sontag said, "The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions."

Jeanette Winterson is one the great writers of the late 20th and early 21st Century, and this is one of her finest books (at least for me). Her prose is poetic and innovative. For the people writing two star critiques and referring to the main character as "he", please read this book again. No where in the book is the narrator referred to as he or she. The fact is that we do not know what the narrator's sex is, and it does not matter. This is only one small insight into the way in which Winterson weaves words into worlds and takes us there. Brilliant!

Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson is not really a novel, as much as a meditation on romantic love, sex, and what it means to be an embodied being. There are some neat tricks in the novel. We never find out if the narrator is male or female. So eros becomes free floating, detached from gender. This brings with it limitations. Male and female desire have elements in common, but also, generally, dissimilarities. When the novel actually develops a plot, Winterson’s power wanes. She is not as adept at telling a story as outlining the landscape of human desire. So the end comes with a plop. After some gorgeous prose, we are treated to a happy conclusion that brings little joy.

I recommend to anyone who still searches for the literature section. A love story; Winterson never reveals the gender of the narrator, which is a hard thing to do without the prose ever feeling strained. Perhaps, she has demonstrated that love transcends gender. A heady thought. It you like heady thoughts and well-written stories... you can't go wrong with any Winterson.

Had I been given the book without a title or the author's name, I would have guessed it was one of Winterson's. A song to LOVE. Genuine feelings beautifully expressed. At moments, poetic prose. After reading the Passion, I tried Written on the Body and will go on to her latest. Unmissable.

if you want a voice that sounds like every other fiction writing hack out there, don't buy this. if you want something different and brilliant, buy it. she is confusing, emotional and stunning. this book doesn't float along, its bumps and bangs and is impossible to put down. she is one of those writers who drops more than one gem that i wish i had come up with. my only complaint is that i was continually trying to figure out the sex of the narrator. she purposely makes it impossible. but that is my problem, not hers.

Narra en primara persona lo que significa estar perdidamente enamorado en una situación complicada. Esta novela suele presentarse desde dos puntos: Por una parte, se afirma que aunque se sabe que está escrita por una mujer (Conocida y famosa escritora por otra parte), en el texto no queda claro el sexo del narrador. En mi opinión, es falso. Está clarísimo que la narradora es una mujer que ama a una mujer casada. Por otra parte, curiosamente, en otras ocasiones se dice lo contrario. Esto es que se trata de una novela "lésbica" y que reivindica el amor entre mujeres, que defiende su legitimidad, etc. Creo que, aunque puede resultar novedoso o curioso o interesante, dado la poco abundancia de literatura "lésbica", es secundario que trate del amor entre mujeres. Y, desde luego, ni reivindica, ni defiende nada. Simplemente cuenta en primera persona una historia de amor. En mi opinión es una buena novela por lo que cuenta, por la forma tan contemporánea, desde adentro del narrador y casi para si mismo, en una especie de bucle narrativo, y porque engancha su trama. Muy recomendable.

This book was stolen from a public library, it has various labels inside and outside that are used in libraries for classifying books, some of them are half ripped as if someone had tried to delete the evidence. At the end of the book there's also the magnetic label that is used to prevent people from stealing them. I'm speachless.

I'll be thinking about the sentence "stigmata of presumption" for the rest of my life

"You'll get over it.." It's the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?" This work by Jeanette Winterson is simply brilliant. l've never come across a book quite like it! So rich with human emotions, desires, and the inevitable pain of losing someone you love, not because you want to, but because it's necessary for their own well-being. There's something about the way Winterson captures this loss that feels so raw and real, and yet, no matter how much I try to put it into words, nothing I write here will truly do justice to what I felt while reading this book. The entire book feels like a poem. Every sentence seems carefully crafted, full of layers and meanings! But it's not just about the "unrequited love" and its inevitable pain, or all the heavy emotions on display in the book. Winterson also has a way of making you laugh, sometimes unexpectedly, with her sharp wit and humor.

訳本だと"I"を男の人に設定していますが、本文をみていると女の人とも思えます。ある評論では"I"を女の人とみなして、レズビアン小説として扱っていました。主人公である"I"の性が一応不明なのはなかなか不思議です｡ 話は色々な女性を渡り歩いた末に出合った人妻との恋が成就して、彼女は医者である夫と別居して、私と幸せな日々を過ごしていた。ところがある日私の所に彼女の夫がやってきて、彼女は不治の病にかかっていると私に告げた。私は医者である夫と一緒にいた方が、彼女のためになると思って、彼女のもとを去ることを決意した。私は彼女に置き手紙をして、別の地で生活をし始めた。ある日私はある女性に"あなたのしたことは彼女の気持ちを無視していて間違っている"と指摘された。それを契機にして、私は再び彼女とやり直す決心をして彼女のもとに戻ると…｡