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Beast, What Is Thy Sex? .......2005-12-16

The fact that Gore Vidal's highly original 'Myra Breckinridge' (1968) and its sequel, 'Myron' (1974), have been published together in one edition by Penguin Books strongly suggests that the novels are in the process of becoming accepted as part of the canon of American Literature. This is extraordinary, since 'Myra Breckinridge' is a genuinely radical and subversive novel that strikes forcibly at the very heart of traditional American values, particularly at the country's conservative sexual mores, though most readers seem to miss the 'unacceptable truth' that the book shrewdly exposes. Oddly, the disastrous film version of 1970, presently in constant rotation on multiple cable channels, made the same point more clearly, which was perhaps somewhat responsible for its critical and box office failure.

On the basis of its tone alone, 'Myra Breckinridge' may be difficult for many readers to read comfortably, which was doubtlessly Vidal's intention. Told in first person through a series of journal entries, Myra's often hilarious commentary is a litany of keen perception, self-hatred, sniping mania, arrogant sarcasm, brittle irony, continuous domineering combativeness, and camp-laden neurosis.

Cultural critic Camille Paglia has championed the novel, and as critic Reed Woodhouse has suggested, Myra's voice is often comparable to Paglia at her acerbic, devil-may-care, 'the truth must out' best. As Paglia would also begin to do with the publication of Sexual Personae in 1991, 'Myra Breckinridge' is additionally a scathing attack on the then-untouchable decorous High WASP values and social mores of the first half of the Twentieth Century. The book's genius lies in Vidal's ability to make the reader first sympathize with and then champion the marauding sociopathic Myra, who is a liar, an extortionist, a sadist, a rapist and, ultimately, something of a phantasm.

The unmentionable--and entirely unacceptable--'ugly truth' that the novel subtly declares is that self-identified heterosexual men can, in fact, be converted to full-blown homosexual desire if they can be made to be the passive partner in homosexual intercourse on at least one occasion. Using an artificial phallus, Myra rapes the hyper-masculine but brainless Rusty (whose buttocks she refers to as "a cannibal banquet"), who then abandons his longtime girlfriend, brutally transfers his rage to aging nymphomaniac Letitia Van Allen, and settles into a life of active, willfully chosen homosexuality as the novel closes.

"We are furnaces inside," says Myra, who has introduced Rusty to an internal furnace he hadn't know he had. Thus Myra, "goddess enthroned and all-powerful," has achieved one of her primary goals: "that is woman's role, to make the wound and then heal it." Myra, who has been reborn several times herself, provides Rusty with a reawakening and second birth, one that would very likely never have occurred without her sadistic intervention.

Curiously, Vidal seems to have lost his nerve as the novel draws to a close. Myra is run over by an automobile driven by one of her enemies, awakens badly injured in a hospital, and, via a process never made clear to the reader, psychically reverts back to Myron Breckinridge, the man she was before physically altering genders via an operation in Denmark.

But while the original Myron was an effeminate if sadomasochistic homosexual male, the post-Myra Myron is a docile, heterosexually-identified house-husband married to Rusty's former girlfriend, Mary-Ann. Lifting a syrupy message from The Wizard of Oz (1939), the novel closes with Myron stating that "it is a proven fact that happiness, like the proverbial bluebird, is to be found in your own backyard if you just know where to look."

While Myron's advice, which violates absolutely everything which has come before, is intended to be ironic, it's odd that Vidal chose to brutally punish--and even physically dismember ("where are my breasts?")--social terrorist Myra for her all-out, hubristic assault on American values, beliefs, manners, and gender roles. Perhaps Myra's failure was an inevitability, since her broad goals are consistently inconsistent: while she zealously worships the depiction of manhood and masculinity reflected in Hollywood films of the Thirties and Forties, she simultaneously desires to figuratively but aggressively reduce every man she encounters to a submissive, quivering eunuch, a position which oddly mirrors her own transsexual status. Whether this confusion is Myra's or Vidal's is difficult to assess, but the book's tepid conclusion suggests that Vidal became unexpectedly mired in his theme and simply lost his way.

The unfunny, grossly overlong 'Myron' is more a parody of its predecessor than a genuine thematic sequel, revealing a Vidal even further removed from the first book's disturbing origins and motivators. Here, Myron, who has had radical reconstructive surgery, continues as a mousy heterosexual house-husband living comfortably in the San Fernando Valley circa 1973, where he runs a Chinese catering business and remains happily married to Mary-Ann.

Though Myron hopes to "block out that awful period" of his life, the now repressed Myra struggles to liberate herself and take control of Myron's "mutilated body." To this end, Myra, "the arch-creatrix herself," supernaturally inserts Myron into a telecast of the fictional 'Siren of Babylon,' after which he finds he is "caught inside the movie" while it is being filmed at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1948. 'Myron' reduces Myra to the back lot B-movie heroine she has continually threatened to degenerate into.

While 'Myra Breckinridge' has sharp and potentially deadly teeth, 'Myron,' sadly overladen with third-rate, 'naughty' gay camp humor, has none. However, it's likely that admirers of the first book will want to follow the further adventures of Vidal's dangerous, dazzling creation.

Myra, psychotic superhero.......2005-11-21

I don't like to know too much about a story before i start reading it. This was the case with this book. Not only i had no idea about the subject matter, i didn't even know too much about Gore Vidal.

There was something really strange about the main character, Myra. She was way too arrogant and full of herself. At first, i thought that was due to the writing. What does Gore Vidal know about women? I remember how surprised i was with She's Come Undone. After reading that book, it was hard for me to believe that Wally Lamb is a man!

But this Myra sure was weird. She was recently widowed, and traveled to Hollywood to collect on her husband's inheritance, which until then had been in the hands of Uncle Buck, an old movie star who now ran an acting school. Uncle Buck decides to keep Myra close by while his lawyers investigate her alleged marriage to his nephew, so he offers her a job in the acting school.

Myra keeps a diary which she is planning to share with her shrink back in NYC. While at the school, she becomes obsessed with a very handsome young man and his girlfriend. She in fact starts planning some unclear revenge, with the handsome guy as the victim.

This was one of those novels that kept me entertained even when i wasn't reading it. It was during one of those moments, when i was thinking about a small detail that did not make sense, that i was able to finally figure out what was going on with Myra. And then i smacked my forehead, because it was sort of obvious.

Not for the faint of heart, because there are some XXX moments, but this was a very fun ride. I enjoyed Myra's self-righteousness after a while, as well as the great movie commentaries throughout the book. There were two points that particularly resonated with me:

1: Myra's praise for the commercial as an art form. I love commercials and the incredible creativity they can concentrate in such a few seconds.

2: "But then the pedestrian is not favored hereabouts. In fact, the police are quick to stop and question anyone found on foot in a residential district since it is part of California folklore that only the queer or criminal walk; the good drive cars that fill the air with the foul odor of burning fossils, and so day by day our lungs fill up with the stuff of great ferns and dinosaurs who thus revenge themselves upon their successors, causing us to wither and die prematurely".

And i have just found out that there is a movie based on the book, so bad that is good.

Two unforgettable novels with one amazing, twisted character.......2005-02-27

MYRA BRECKINRIDGE moves to Hollywood in order to collect the inheritance left by her husband Myron. The one problem is Uncle Buck Loner who stands between her and the property - a profitable school for would be actors run by Buck. Myra is certain that everything will turn out her way, as she is the New American Woman. Every man wants her, but none may have her. However, there is a twist to Myra that will throw her plans into turmoil if anyone finds out.

This is a darkly comic book with one of the most intriguing of characters in Myra Breckinridge. She is self-confidant (perhaps overly so), knows how to control and manipulate both men and women to fulfill her wishes, and determined not to let anything stop her. She is ready to change the world to suit her. In other words, a force to be reckoned with. I also liked that she patterned herself after movie heroines and relates to people as though they were characters in a movie, shown for her benefit.

The novel itself is written as a series of diary entries, written by Myra as events happen. This gives an immediacy to the story and makes the reader feel as though he/she is a part of the action. The twist in the story is definitely a shocking one; I admit that it threw me for a loop. I can only imagine its impact when the book was published in 1968 with the sexual revolution just underway. An incredible book.

MYRON: This sequel to "Myra Breckinridge" follows poor Myron as he battles against Myra, only this time they've somehow become stuck in the 1948 movie "Siren of Babylon." It's a strange world, the Hollywood of 1948, and Myron tries frantically to return to 1973 and his beloved Richard M. Nixon while Myra has plans of her own to both bring back the glory of MG Studios by fixing "Siren" and to curb the human population growth by re-forming man in her image - strong, sterile Amazonian woman. Her one problem: Myron and how to keep him from escaping the film.

It's a totally bizarre and wonderfully campy look at Hollywood of the 1940s but seen through the eyes of the 1970s. And, like its predecessor, is written in journal entries so you're in the action as it happens from the characters' perspectives. A great piece of fantasy fiction.

Most provocative, insightful & hilarious book I ever read.......2004-05-01

The incomparable Gore Vidal wrote this book in the middle of the sexual revolution of the late sixties. He managed to write a book that is a profound statement on the women's movement on the brink of political madness; revealing the madness of patriarchal society during the Vietnam years while it began to embody the intimate criminal mentality of its enemy at the edge of its success. This book is still, more than thirty-five years later, ahead of its time. Myra Breckinridge is a symbol of America at this tumultuous time--a time that has not only not ended but is being ignored for the benefit of going backward to the Commie-hunter fifties culture, where it is seemingly safe from critical scrutiny. The sexuality, the artistry, the marketplace, the spirituality, and the narcissism that goes from the ridiculous to the sublime--defining the time in which is what written--is all here in this novel, in a way that is not only brilliantly entertaining but non-stop funny.

Vidal was the favorite writer of my baby-boomer parents when I was a child. And like my grandfather, who can tell me all the dirty little secrets of my parents generation without them even being aware, Vidal, with his unmatched artistry and biting wit, reveals all, with a talent for weaving stories that has been unmatched. Who is Myra Breckinridge? A better question would be who ISN'T?

An incredible novel.

EASY DOES IT ON THIS ONE.......2003-02-28

Some of the past reviewers went to take an aspirin and swallowed the whole bottle. Myra was but an amusing story that posed the deep question of what part one's sexuality plays in defining one's ultimate identity. If a guy should discover half way through life that he wanted to be a she-read this book before whacking it off. The amputation solved nothing for Myron. Myra had hoped she'd evolve into a new, superior species but discovered that a lovely woman's body didn't erase her loneliness. Myra did claim a temporary uniqueness but Vidal's heavy handed ending decapitated that idea.

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shocking for grandma but not for teen.......2003-05-19

After reading Myra Breckinridge I couldn't look at my passions with the same sort of satisfaction after being infused by Vidal's challenge to established normalcy.
He doesn't waste any time introducing us to his philosophical, dedicated diary-writing main character Myra Breckinridge.
Myra is a determined transsexual with an edge of determined power. Vidal draws Myra from the masses and sets her aside with an assumed background that stretches the bounds of possibility. This unconventional collection of presupposed events goes along with Vidal's overall intention to shock.
Vidal utilizes the personal setting of a diary to present his readers with a more complete understanding of the workings of an up-and-coming person living a lifestyle with freewill and self-asserted power.
Vidal's connections between shockingly different human lives and the commonplace suburban plain works well in this novel. He does not overlook the importance of love, acceptance, and stability to remain sane.
With these emotions included, the reader is allowed to remain attached with the character alongside a fascination with her seemingly educated obscenity. For this, Vidal can be commendable in his efforts.
As far as shock factor, this book is not for your grandma. Vidal himself admits Myra Breckinridge was "pretty far out" by the standards of the time, though these days, fairly mild.
However, you feel receptive after reading it and not only because the sex scenes are described with little reservations, but also because Myra forever remains informed and thus justifiably assertive.
The theories of power in all human existence are intertwined by the daily life of Myra that can be partially or wholly applied to any who read this fictional transgender's story.
"I existed totally" were Myra's words when referring to her own choice of lifestyle, but when this comment was written, Vidal was not done with her story.
Just as the rest of the book finds room to wander to and fro between acceptable and eccentric, the plot begins typical and predictable among its own established bounds but by the end you've been thrown a quick curveball. It either leaves you satisfied with the way it fits in with the personality of Myra, or causes you to assume the ideals you'd come to believe were unsound.
Either way Myra Breckinridge bestows literacy with a novel full of provoking premise to begin recognizing, by way of the extreme, that life does not have to begin and end with time-honored tradition but instead must follow more personal laws that recognize the supremacy of within.

I THINK I KNOW WHAT IT'S ABOUT.......1999-03-27

Confusing patchwork of letters, memos, grade reports, oddball documents...seems to suggest gender dysphoric teacher identifies with attractive young female student and wishes he were her,...so she will screw him (?). An inheritance chase ensues, and he magically becomes the girl of his own dreams (beaverly played by Raquel Welch who convincingly screws a young Farrah Fawcett). But then what. As the new girl befreinds the girl he loves, she boldly tells "new girl", "I wish you were a guy". Fitting end to a slutty story! StarlaParis cautions, "Sometimes we don't know what we got 'til it's gone".

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