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The Letters of Mina Harker
cle masterpiece Dracula, Van Helsing's plain Jane secretarial adjunct, Mina Harker, is recast as a sexual, independent woman living in San Francisco in the 1980s. The vampire Mina Harker, who possesses the body of author Dodie Bellamy, confesses the most intimate details of her relationships with four vastly different men through past letters. Simultaneously, a plague is l...more
Paperback, 226 pages
Published
September 27th 2004
by University of Wisconsin Press
(first published 1998)
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This books is breathtaking in its use of language. Told in a faux epistolary, it details the fight for the body of Dodie Bellamy between the author and the vampire (spirit?) Mina Harker. Ultimately, it's hard for me to make a judgement call on a book like this. While I feel I might be able to get a lot out of the read if assisted in an academic setting, ultimately I found very few roads into this book. I was constantly stalled, the language is the language for the sake of being the language, and...more
If you love the epistolary form and New Narrative fiction, this will take you. Dirty love letters between Bellamy and Sam D'Allesandro comprise half the book. He is dieing on the way. In the center is his funeral which is followed by Bellamy's excavation into texts and writing and death. I read sections here and there before sitting down and reading it in its entirety, I recommend either.
I'm not sure about the effort to write as Mina Harker, but I've never read Dracula so am probably m...more
I'm not sure about the effort to write as Mina Harker, but I've never read Dracula so am probably m...more
Some of the lines in this book have stayed with me forever.
Amazing epistolary novel. Mixes "real" diaristic writings with imagined diaries, blurs all literary boundaries and entertains, too. Sexy, funny, claustrophobic and alarming. I first read this work in fragments, which were being published in various magazines and newsletters, seemingly frantically trying to reach a readership, which breathlessly awaited every installment. Takes all the air out of the room. Place carefully on the bookshelf. Plays well, but with finality, with others.
The Letters of Mina Harker is a dishy fictionalized memoir from SF literary illuminary Dodie Bellamy. As with other stuff I've seen from Dodie, a mix of beauty and vulgarity and sometimes a surprising combo of both at once. Vulgarity maybe isn't quite the right word. Explicit information. TMI (but you want to keep reading anyway). By turns touching and repugnant. Etc. You get the idea. You should read it.
i remember reading this book under the covers with a flashlight in my little apartment on 21st street. i had just quit a job as a stocker at the esprit outlet. my boyfriend was away on tour and i was lonely though i had houseguests. i checked the book out from the san francisco public library.
mina harker, passive girl reporter no more! bellamy gives good sentence and even better sex.
this book isn't for everyone...but bellamy is truly an amazing writer.
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