Books Like Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal | Suggested Reading

This Study Guide consists of approximately 5 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Myra Breckinridge.

Books Like Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal | Suggested Reading

This Study Guide consists of approximately 5 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Myra Breckinridge.
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In Myron (1974), the theme that all power is sexual power is carried even further than it is in Myra Breckinridge as Myra shows that saving the MGM movie studio and ending the world population crisis are in some sense the same problem: All she need do is emasculate all the movie extras (just as she was once emasculated) and substitute her own drag queen hyperreality for Maria Montez in the 1948 movie Siren of Babylon, for which express purpose she has been transported back to the past through the magical time lapse of television commercials. The levels of reality in this book are complicated to describe, but not difficult to follow in context. Additional complications are provided by the narrator's schizophrenia, with sometimes the cautious Myron in control and sometimes the wild Myra. Myron uses film-making effectively as a metaphor for time travel to contrast the present...

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