Elements of Don Giovanni in Bridget Brophy's The Snow Ball and John Berger's G.

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2013-05-29T10:29:54Z
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This paper is an intrpretation of two late-twentieth-century British adaptations of the Don Juan legend, which seems to be aware of both the essence of sensual genius and the cathacrestic function of Don Juan’s figure: One is Brigid Brophy’s The Snow Ball., which was published in 1964. The other is a Booker Prize winner book, John Berger’s, G., which was released in 1972. At first glance we can hardly find any similarities between the two works of fiction: the first one is set in an 18th century house on a new year’s eve masquerade ball. The main figures dressed as characters from Mozart’s opera’s, try to find out whether Donna Anna was seduced by Don Giovanni or not, while the woman dressed as Donna Anna meets a masked man who calls himself Don Giovanni and is seduced by him. Berger’s novel is a narrative with strong Marxist overtones whose ’’principal protagonist’’, called G., travels around Europe around the time of the outbreak of World War One. This novel builds on the traditional Don Juan myth, for G. is a womanizer, who calls himself Don Juan and a social outcast, indifferent towards the great political events and movements of history.

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sensual genius, dislocation
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