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Hogg

by Samuel R. Delany

A novel built around transgression and complicity

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A novel built around transgression and complicity

Set across three days in 1969, Hogg is narrated by a young accomplice to Franklin Hargus, a truck driver and rapist-for-hire. The premise places sexual violence and extreme transgression at the center of the book, making its subject matter deliberately difficult. Its framing invites attention to the relationship between Hargus and the narrator, as well as to the publisher description’s emphasis on loyalty, admiration, and the social forces that shape human behavior. This is a work of adult fiction whose content is far outside conventional limits.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Adults prepared for fiction centered on sexual violence and extreme transgression.
  • Readers interested in challenging LGBTQ+ fiction and questions of complicity and social influence.

Themes

Sexual violence and transgressionComplicityLoyalty and admirationSocial influence

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Book overview

A fearless descent into the darkest corners of human desire and violence.

First written thirty-five years ago and completed days before the Stonewall riots in New York, award-winning author Samuel R. Delany's Hogg is one of America's most famous "unpublishable" novels. It recounts three days in 1969 in the life of truck driver and rapist-for-hire, Franklin Hargus. Narrated by his young accomplice, Delaney's novel portrays an exploration of erotic depravity, a capacious landscape of sexuality that transgresses social and erotic boundaries.

While testing readers' tolerance, what transfigures the novel into a work of literature is Delany's refusal, faced with moral anxieties and revulsion, to mutilate or disown his creation. Hogg's characters wear recognizable human faces, possessing intense loyalty, perverse admiration, and a kind of integrity. Hargus fascinates. He is the embodiment of what society can turn people into, the decaying condition of the human soul.

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