Hogg (novel)

Hogg is a novel by Samuel R. Delany, often described as pornographic.Luskin, Josh. in The Minnesota Review (Spring 2006) It was written in San Francisco in 1969 and completed just days before the Stonewall Riots in New York City. A further draft was completed in 1973 in London. At the time it was written, no one would publish it due to its graphic and copious descriptions of murder, homosexuality, child molestation, incest, coprophilia, coprophagia, urolagnia, anal-oral contact, necrophilia and rape. Hogg was finally published – with some further, though relatively minor, rewrites – in 1995 by Black Ice Books. The two successive editions have featured some correction, the last of which, published by Fiction Collective 2 in 2004, carries a note at the end stating that it is definitive.

Content

Preface

The preface to the novel is titled "The Scorpion Garden".

Text

As described in the book Inventory by The AV Club,



These acts include a substantial amount of "rape, violence, and murder", such as "scenes of Hogg and his gang brutally raping various women" and other "extensive scenes involving consumption of bodily waste."

Characters

Franklin "Hogg" Hargus

Michael Hemmingson wrote in the journal The Review of Contemporary Fiction that Hogg,

Literary significance......

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