The release date for the English version of 'The Argonauts' by
Maggie Nelson is May 2015. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
An adventurous journey to the cutting edge of contemporary ideas on family, language, and love.
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson is a genre-bending memoir and a piece of "autotheory" that offers new, furious, and relevant perspectives on language and love, identity, and desire. The narrative revolves on the author's romantic relationship with artist Harry Dodge. Nelson provides a personal picture of the challenges and delights of (queer) family-making in this novel, which also includes her story of falling in love with Dodge, a transgender person.
Writing in the tradition of public intellectuals like Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes, Nelson integrates her own experience with a thorough analysis of the ideas put out by renowned thinkers on gender, sexuality, and the complex structures of marriage and parenthood. This intelligent, outspoken, and unyielding book finds its voice in Nelson's emphasis on extreme individual freedom and the need of nurturing others.