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We Always Treat Women Too Well was first published as a purported work of pulp fiction by one Sally Mara, but this novel by Raymond Queneau is a further manifestation of his sly, provocative, wonderfully wayward genius. Set in Dublin during the 1916 Easter rebellion, it tells of a nubile beauty who finds herself trapped in the central post office when it is seized by a group of rebels. But Gertie Girdle is no common pushover, and she quickly devises a coolly lascivious strategy by which, in very short order, she saves the day for king and country. Queneau's wickedly funny send-up of cheap smut—his response to a popular bodice-ripper of the 1940s—exposes the link between sexual fantasy and actual domination while celebrating the imagination's power to transmute crude sensationalism into pleasure pure and simple.
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Arthur Wittwer
reviewed We Always Treat Women Too Well (New York Review Books Classics) on November 25, 2014
We Always Treat Women Too Well (New York Review Books Classics)
An offering from the New York Review Books Classic list, which has introduced this reader to a lot of gems, interesting books and vastly different authors.
It was the quirky title that piqued my interest because I'd certainly never come across the author's name before. There is already a substantive synopsis on offer so no point in my rehashing.
I know that many readers have rated this shorter novel far higher but it didn't quite "gel" with me even though I love books set in Ireland and I love the period of history that the novel was set in. The very dark humor, and references to James Joyce sailed over my head as I've never read Joyce I'm afraid. The novel itself is written at a cracking pace, and the chapters are short which gave the story a 'static feel".
I realize that the novel was meant to be a parody but it just didn't resonate, parts that were meant to be humorous weren't to me. The characters themselves were strangely unsympathetic and lacked an emotional connection from the captive femme fatale Gertie to the Irish Rebels. Just not my cup of tea I'm afraid......
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