Grunge Literature

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first published novel but was written after
Marilyn's Almost Terminal New York Adventure which has just been released.
The River Ophelia was a 'heavy duty' novel. Confronting, repetitive and
relentless in its portrayal of an obsessive, self-abusive woman called
'Justine' and her quest for love. It has been hounded as anti-feminist
because it portrays women as weak, pathetic victims of themselves as much
as of the patriarchy yet it writes under the guise of sexual reclamation,
Justine masturbates at least once a chapter and the novel drips with an
amazing variety of bodily fluids.

This could be classified as a political novel because of the way it
involves the readers in the events, it forces the reader to form opinions
about what is happening because of the way in which it is written. Ettler
writes of self mutilation, emotional despair and physical and
phsychological violence with the dispassionate discourse of the media. The
River Ophelia is a reclamation, through a ...

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to work the system, and gains enormous power from this.
She's transformed into a media star, Dr Blood. She's still around, this
person that understands and benefits from manipulation.

After the hard grind and political contention of The River Ophelia,
Ettler's new novel Marilyn's Almost Terminal New York Adventure reads
sweetly and cleanly. Ophelia was full of sex, self-abuse and indecision;
Marilyn's only sexual reference is a teenage memory. There are no
genitalia in sight and Marilyn has at least a snippet of self-integrity.
It's a neatly woven stream-of-consciousness daydream. Ettler speaks of it
as a more optimistic book. Marilyn's not obsessed entirely with herself,
she has ...

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