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A young poet's relationship with a predatory professor is, explored through a diary, a play, and a novella dealing with themes of grief, trauma, and desire.
Jennie Silver has been seduced, abused, and abandoned by Benedict Eck, a Midwestern literature professor known for being influenced by Hungarian émigré novelist Avigdor Element, and a notorious womanizer known for preying on vulnerable graduate students. In the process, Jennie keeps a diary and writes a play and a novella in her attempt to control her desperate, high-pitched emotions focused on a man she is uncontrollably, drawn to and at the same time finds repugnant-a man who is one of the keepers and part of the legacy of Element's bad behavior.
Spanning a hundred years of history from when Nijinsky danced "The Afternoon of the Faun" in Paris in 1912, through World Wars I and II, to very close to the present, Losing Beck is not only a portrait of one woman's relationship with one man, but an exploration of obsession, grief, desire, and the effects of historical trauma.
Jennie Silver has been seduced, abused, and abandoned by Benedict Eck, a Midwestern literature professor known for being influenced by Hungarian émigré novelist Avigdor Element, and a notorious womanizer known for preying on vulnerable graduate students. In the process, Jennie keeps a diary and writes a play and a novella in her attempt to control her desperate, high-pitched emotions focused on a man she is uncontrollably, drawn to and at the same time finds repugnant-a man who is one of the keepers and part of the legacy of Element's bad behavior.
Spanning a hundred years of history from when Nijinsky danced "The Afternoon of the Faun" in Paris in 1912, through World Wars I and II, to very close to the present, Losing Beck is not only a portrait of one woman's relationship with one man, but an exploration of obsession, grief, desire, and the effects of historical trauma.