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lisa_emily, June 12, 2008

A bawdy novel in a fairy tale form about a 40 year old poet/pawnbroker who is given back youth to travel for a year to imaginary places. He begins his journey with the pretense of searching for his disappeared wife. He goes to heaven and hell and marries three other women.

Jurgen was brought to trial for obscenity in 1919 for some obscure passages that may have referred to sex. The real reason may have been because of the novel's questioning of religion and dogma. Because of its notoriety, Cabell was launched into fame which included critical appreciation- he was also friends with H.L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, among others; and he was read by Mark Twain. After the 30s, however, Cabell's fame slipped and he has had more of a cult readership these days; although his works inspired Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, and he is cited as an influence by Neil Gaiman.

Jurgen is a tale of a mid-life crisis. The main character questions the value of relationships and suffers illusion's unveiling of love, marriage and youth. In the end he has a better understanding of life….maybe. There are many subtle things in this story, maybe too subtle for the contemporary reader.

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