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0 reviewsA bewitching collage of fiction, memoir, & mythography
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“What is in the bag behind the Devil’s chair? Knowledge of some kind? Surely something a little girl did not know should be left alone. I’ve been criticized― & sometimes admired―for what some readers see as my affinity with cruelty, both in my depictions of it & my supposed infliction of it on characters.”In The Devil’s Treasure―aptly subtitled A Book of Stories & Dreams―the iconic author Mary Gaitskill has created a chimerical hybrid of fiction, memoir, essay, criticism, & visual art that transcends categorization. This collage of four novels (one a work in progress), interspersed with & thematically linked by a single short story, then woven together with the author’s commentary, is a kind of director’s cut revealing the personal & societal forces that inform each individual piece of work, an ongoing, passionate exploration of core human emotions & experience, the ideally, sometimes quixotically high & grossly, confusedly low.
With the stylistic daring & preternatural acuity that has made her one of America’s most original writers, Gaitskill has created a layered vision of modern life that simultaneously blends the huge prehistoric creatures that swim at the bottom of our collective ocean with a family that picnics on the beach while a podcast natters about politics & a perhaps dangerously curious child explores the lapping waves.
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In this searching biography of the writer’s imagination, Mary Gaitskill excavates her own novels, revealing their origins & obsessions, the personal & societal pressures that formed them, & the life story hidden between their pages. Using the techniques of collage, The Devil's Treasure splices fiction together with commentary & personal history, & with the fairy tale that gives the book its title, about a little girl who ventures into Hell through a suburban trapdoor.
