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Travesty by Hawkes, John is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Travesty about?

An exceptionally brilliant novel from “our most interesting writer” (Flannery O’Connor) Travesty  is John Hawkes’s most extreme vision of eroticism and comic terror. In the south of France, an elegant sports car is speeding through the night, bearing a man, his daughter, and his best friend toward a fatal crash. As he drives, the “privileged man” justifies, in a sustained monologue, his firm opinion that willed destruction is the ultimate act of the poetic imagination. “What I have in mind is an ‘accident’ so perfectly contrived that it will be unique, spectacular and instantaneous, a physical counterpart to that vision in which it was in fact conceived.” Concerned with sex, myth, the imagination, and the absurd,  Travesty  is one of the most cruelly and vibrantly ironic works to be found in twentieth-century literature. **

Who reads Travesty?

Author

Hawkes, John

Publisher

New Directions Publishing; Brand: New Directions Publishing

Published

1976

Language

EN

ISBN

9780811206402

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

3.77 / 5 (281 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14