tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2023956444265128672.post4450061641938477012..comments2024-03-29T04:12:48.987+08:00Comments on The Reading Life: "Kennedy" by Desmond Hogan (2012-in Best European Fiction 2012)Mel uhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08714473754458914681noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2023956444265128672.post-87876696487063528372013-04-23T05:38:09.232+08:002013-04-23T05:38:09.232+08:00Interesting post, Mel and some good connections ma...Interesting post, Mel and some good connections made with the Lawrence article in Breac. However, I think part of what you are flagging is something around authorial intention - something which one cannot know (and often, which the author might not consciously know). <br />I would be reluctant to classify or pin down a writer such as Hogan to the erotic elements because of the broad range of themes and subtexts in his work. <br />Neither am I convinced that there is a particular message in this story. Rather, Hogan seems, to me, to be simply (or complexly) painting pictures: it is as it is. What we - the reader - make of it and what it is (fiction / reality and that relationship) is up to us. <br />I wonder if your original approach to his work as “found treasures” rather than “message givers” is more in line with the pictures he paints with his stories – social, personal, universal - themselves “found treasures”?<br />shaunaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03663581840988709608noreply@blogger.com