The Double View: A Novel by Chandler Brossard
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Overview: That Chandler Brossard s new novel, THE DOUBLE VIEW, is a book of impressive originality will come as no surprise to those readers who know Mr. Brossard’s earlier novels, Who Walk in Darkness and The Bold Saboteurs.
In this novel, he reveals with savage wit the double-dealing lives of six urban characters men and women whose compulsions yield the reader a tragi-comic view of orgy, crime, the mirror images of sanity-lunacy and the sweetness finally of love as well as hope. These are the double viewers who seek magic by living out their desperate fantasies: Margaret, a society girl who indulges in sexual oddities; her friend Hawkins, the Negro intellectual who yields to the whiteman’s black demands; Harry, spokesman for the double life who himself doubles as a Bronx street punk; Phillips, the Jewish Don Juan; Carter, the sanest of madmen who bides his time in an institution; and Shanley, who alone sees the world in a single view.
Of his novel, Chandler Brossard writes, "I like to think of THE DOUBLE VIEW as a stringently moralistic book. It tries to show what happens when people lose sight of God; when they begin to use each other, the way we use commodities, rather than love each other; and what happens when a person does not know truly who he is and what he should do on this earth."
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics > Postmodernism
CHANDLER BROSSARD was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho, in 1922, grew up in Washington, D. C. and has traveled extensively in Europe. He has for the past twenty years been in magazine publishing as an editor and writer. He is the editor of an anthology: The Scene Before You and the author of two previous novels, Who Walk in Darkness and The Bold Saboteurs. Of his first novel, The Nation said, "It hits straight to the center. The world Brossard creates pulses with a true beat"; The San Francisco Chronicle commented, "Who Walk in Darkness marks Chandler Brossard as a writer with a power and a clarity of expression that will enhance whatever he chooses to write about" And the Cincinnati Enquirer wrote, "Many novels attempt to use New York as a theme. However, very few authors succeed. Among these is Chandler Brossard, who has written a tremendous story of the city" Of The Bold Saboteurs the Houston Post said, "It is a startling, terrifying and profoundly moving experience. If you are looking for something that digs to the ultimate mucky bottom, that recognizes no horizons, no limitations, that steps easily from the unbearable world of reality to the ravening world of the tortured mind, then The Bold Saboteurs is prescribed. How a person of thirty, a handsome, well fed American could so distill the feelings of Hugo, Dostoevsky and Kafka and come up with something so limpidly demoniacal is hard to see.But Brossard has done it.
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