SOURCE: Iordanova, Dina. Review of The Taste of a Man, by Slavenka Drakulic. Slavic and East European Journal 42, no. 3 (fall 1998): 568-88.

In the following review, Iordanova notes flaws in The Taste of a Man, but asserts that Drakulic's concurrent interests in writing essays on civil causes and erotic novels makes her career interesting.

[In The Taste of a Man,] Teresa—a Polish post-doc in literature and a poet, and Jose—a Brazilian visiting scholar, meet by accident at the New York Public Library where Jose is doing research for a book on a 1980s incident of cannibalism in the Peruvian Andes. They engage in a passionate love affair, soon move in together, and intensely enjoy each other before their life schedules take them back to the places they came from and to the people they left behind. Jose is a married man; his wife calls at some point...