The Overcrowded Barracoon, ‘Michael X’ and Guerrillas

Abstract

I write from the deepest sympathy for all my characters³³

The novel, you know, hangs between two sexual scenes. The first explains the second. I was very nervous before I wrote the first one. And I was appalled by the second … it’s a moralistic book. It has very hard things to say about people who play at serious things, who think they can always escape, run back to their safe world.³⁴