MY HERO

by Maude Hutchins ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 20, 1953

Once again (A Diary of Love) the unsublimation of sex as Susie records- in terms which are umbilically Freudian- the ""bantam existence"" of Steve, before he became hers. Her fantasis takes her back to his introductory experience, in his mother's womb (his mother thought of him as Virgo and used this name in her intimate association with him) and at his mother's breast; to Ginger- whom he kissed at six; through the ambivalent adolescent relationship with his close friend John; to the compliant Augusta- and her less compliant mother whose discovery and disgust sent him to Chicago, and a prostitute, to kill the festering memory of this experience....At one point in this narrative, Susie stops to say-""Don't we, lots of times, say simple ordinary things, but doesn't the language itself, make our meaning clearer than we mean it to be?"". This is quite a thought, but for Miss Hutchins- whose language includes some real posers (ibid viviparate; hygiantics) this should not be an immediate concern. What should bother her much more is that she has confused the pathology of the analyst's couch with the substance of the novel.

Pub Date: April 20, 1953

ISBN: 0811218996

Page Count: -

Publisher: New Directions

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1953

Categories: FICTION