Sesso e avventure!
La storia di Fanny tra sesso ed avventura un libro lungo che non mi ha soddisfatto per niente, mentre lo leggevo mi sembrava di avere in mano un "Harmony" dove la protagonista per tutto il libro combatte contro la sventura e nelle ultime dieci pagine tutto si risolve con il classico "happy end" o come si dice alla toscana "tutto finito a tarallucci e vino"!

That was really something.

This book drove me crazy at first because all nouns are capitolized as well as all the sayings of the time. Lots of fun to read and really crazy as well. Don't read unless you don't mind a few x-rated scenes.

A clever book, well researched about he period it portrays. Basically Fanny Hill with a feminist outlook, but almost certainly a more truthful portrayal than the other. The characters are fun and the heroine beguiling, or do I have to say Hero these days? Never quite noticed when the gender neutrality crept in, when actresses became actors etc., and being a writer have never wanted to change that expression or separation! An old fashioned romp, almost erotic at times, but also brutally factual where the brothels, sex, witches covens are portrayed. I did love the book for all that. As a guy I guess it is hard for me to look on it without certain concerns, but I still sympathised with the sentiments, so I guess I'm getting there equality wise. It is the same with all equality issues, you don't realise how ingrained prejudices are in your psyche until you test them from the other side. Obviously it was agood book, as it has made me consider the politics.

18th century Sexual romp about Fanny Jones. Very bawdy and leaves little to the imagination.

Titel: Fanny. Forfatter: Erica Jong. Sider: 499. Forlag: Gyldendals Bogklub. Udgivelsesår: 1980. Anmeldereksemplar: Litfix.dk ★★★★★

“Forældreløs, hore, eventyrerske, holdt elskerinde, slavefarer, sekretær, heks, ja, tilmed benådet pirat! Ved Gudinden, min egen livshistorie var en bedre historie end alle opdigtede historier. Og ved Gudinden, det var på tide at fortælle det hele”.

Fanny er en altopslugende, omfattende, spændende, farefuld, lystig, liderlig, litterær, feministisk og ikke mindst sandfærdig historie om den virkelige Fanny Hackabout-Jones og hendes eventyrlige oplevelser.

Jeg har længe haft Erica Jongs roman Fanny stående på bogreolen, stirrende på mig, inderligt nærmest ønskede den, at jeg læste den. Og en dag åbnede jeg bogen, for bare lige at lure på, hvad den egentlig indeholdt. Den havde udelukkende fundet nåde for mit blik i min lokale genbrug, fordi jeg genkendte forfatternavnet og titlen som værende en historie, der skulle læses. Jeg kunne ikke erindre, hvor jeg havde læst om bogen, men jeg havde netop hørt en udsendelse på Skønlitteratur på P1, hvor Nanna Mogensen interviewer Erica Jong, der siger: “Nanna, so how did you get your name?” som noget af det første til den udsendte danske interviewer. Allerede der var min interesse vakt, og så måtte Fanny altså med mig hjem.

Der stod hun længe på bogreolen klemt inde mellem Régine Deforges Pigen med den blå cykel og Ib Michaels Vanillepigen, og nu kunne jeg ikke lade hende stå længere. Og hvilken læseoplevelse! Det er svært at forklare med få ord, hvad romanen egentlig handler om, da den rummer så mange aspekter af livet og er fortalt med en sådan ihærdighed og et plot, der konstant driver fremad, at den for mig var noget nært umulig at lægge fra sig, da jeg først var gået i gang.

Læseren møder Fanny/Frances/Fannikin, da hun er omkring de 35 år på hendes residens Merriman Park i England omkring 1700-tallet. Her har Fanny nedfældet sin eventyrlige livshistorie til sin datter Belinda, der romanen igennem tiltales direkte. Fannys fortælling er spækket med de vildeste miljøbeskrivelser, der i et troværdigt sprog skildrer naturens skønhed, som den tog sig ud i 1924’ernes London og omkringliggende egne. Erica Jong skriver godt og har virkelig stykket et spændende plot sammen, hvor alle karakterer synes lige fyldige. Hovedpersonen Fanny er kun 17 år, da hun starter sin livshistorie men allerede som ung pige er hun fyldt med vilje, mod og kløgt og opdager snart, at hun må forlade barndomshjemmet Lymeworth, hvis hun skal opnå sine inderste drømme og længsler om at blive forfatterinde. 17 år forinden er Fanny blevet efterladt af sin ukendte mor på Lymworths trappetrin, og Lord og Lady Bellars har opdraget hende som sin egen, på lige vilkår med de to ægte Bellars, Mary og Daniel. Ja, allerede her minder det lidt om Brontës Stormfulde højder. Men Fanny er så meget mere. Skæbnen vil, at adoptivfaderens kødelige lyster tvinger Fanny til at forlade sit ellers elskede barndomshjem, og det bliver starten på en uforglemmelig rejse.

Fanny er en grænseoverskridende roman, og sexscenerne pinligt udpenslet, men romanen er så meget mere end de kødelige lyster, hvorfor jeg virkelig synes, at den fortjener at blive læst. Plotmæssigt minder mig den om mange af Karen Blixens bedste fortællinger, i miljøbeskrivelser og følelsesudladninger ligger den sig op af Diana Gabaldons Outlander-serie, og i sin kritik af kvinders position og undertrykkelse, har den referencer til Amalie Skrams Constance Ring – omend Fanny er langt mere fræk og frivol. Romanen er et feministisk manifest. Det er jo kvinderne, der føder alle de vigtige mænd, som Fanny selv erfarer midtvejs i sit livs rejse. Romanen anbefales derfor til ALLE kvinder og ligeså ALLE mænd. De varmeste anbefalinger herfra.

Et lille udpluk af de sjoveste og mest kække passager i bogen:

Kom, stå mig bi, poet, lad mund og fingre gå! Pikken bliver træt, men tungen kan altid stå!”

“Avlelemmet er en specialist; men tungen er en tusindkunstner!”

P.S på side 122 fylder en alfabetisk opremsning af ord, der kan beskrive det kvindelig kønsorgan, der efterlod mig både forpustet og fornøjet.

This book is a triumph of language and a joy to read. a feminist send up of 'racy' English novels of the Regency and Victorian periods. A delight!

Note: I read this first as a 15yr old and had remembered it being VERY racy. Although there is a good deal of sex in the book, it is handled in a very quaint manner and therefore did not have the same effect on my 50 yr old self as it did on my 15yr old imagination.

Total delight from beginning to end. Inspired me to read books that were written in the 18th century. Not an easy task!

It's a sexy romp -- and a feminist manifesto -- but it's not great literature. Or a great love story!

I have mixed feelings about FANNY. On the one hand, I adore wild sex and adventurous pairings. And this book has plenty of both! On the other hand, I resent Erica Jong's constant flaunting of her educational pedigree, her Manhattan posturing, the subtle snobbery that consistently undermines her feminist preaching. And I can't help but feel that there are (literally) hundreds of hard-working romance writers who sit down EVERY DAY and crank out love stories (some even set in the 18th century) that are more moving, more emotional, more authentic, and even better researched than this one. But THOSE authors didn't go to Barnard College on Manhattan's elite Upper West Side -- a school so exclusive they actually employ a small army of uniformed security guards to keep the riffraff at bay!

So yes, I resented the book before I ever picked it up to read. And then, when the sex got hot, I found I didn't really mind. But at the end of the book, I noticed how empty it all seemed. Fanny's adventures are fun, but for all the sex there's really very little emotion to go around. There's no strong hero. There's no lasting commitment. There's also never, ever a time when Fanny seems even remotely concerned with the brutal poverty and starvation all around her -- liberating her own body seems to be her first (and only) priority. Even when she's trapped in a brothel, there's a surprising coldness in the way she catalogs the diseases that are slowly killing her female companions. Evidently it's okay to romp with working class women in bed -- but you don't want to get too close to them. While this sheds a lot of light on the modern feminist movement, it also makes for a very depressing and unemotional read.

To sum up, Fanny is no Huckleberry Finn. This is a picaresque novel, yes. Fanny travels like Huck, but unlike Huck she doesn't really learn or go through any changes. Her book-learned feminist convictions are set in stone from day one. They don't grow over time. They aren't the result of experience. She sleeps around much more than Huck, but she's ultimately a lot more selfish and immature.

Il libro mi e' piaciuto anche se ho preferito ' paura di volare'. Inizia bene ma le 'avventure' alla fine 'stancano' perché sono troppe e al limite del fantastico (e del crudo). Abbastanza scontato il finale.

My mom gave this book to me for christmas. It was written during the midst of the sexual revolution and shows it. In the guise of a historical romance (the writing style does get a little tiresome) it is a feminist anthem and story of how one women- through totally unrealistic means- finds herself. It is a book everyone should read.

This is one of my all-time favorite books.
Easily
Read it around a couple thousand times as a very confused teen, and every single time, I was happy to get back in with the adventures of "our Fanny" and the merry band.

I only just recently discovered (as a fully-grown adult with a sizeable beard) that it's meant to be a spoof of an actual much more popular literary work of (almost) the same name. I've never read that version, I highly highly doubt that I ever will.
But this discovery led me to come back and retroactively gash about this fantastic part of my forgotten youth

Maybe I'll pick it up again for read-through number 100028