![]() "The truth would come out sooner or later," Rosen writes early in the novel, " just needed to make sure it was later, after she had made her genius so clear that the world could no longer scorn or punish her for what lay between her legs." ![]() Yeah, that sounds crazy-pretentious enough, I think."Īs you can imagine, there is nothing simple about Violet-her character or her situation-and there lies the beautiful heart of this book: the lead character. It's also about invention - of identity, of course, but also of art and science and what it means for us, as people to create. "Identity," said Rosen, "how it's formed, what it means, how it shifts and how we feel about the labels put on us. ![]() At its heart, you see, All Men of Genius is a book about identity. ![]() In the process, Violet learns about herself, the society she lives in, and the way that society attempts to define her. Denied what she desires by social convention, she does what Viola in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and the male leads in Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest do: she changes her external identity in order to get what she wants. ![]() In All Men of Genius by Lev AC Rosen, Violet Adams doesn't necessarily want to be a man, but she does want to attend the prestigious, all-male Illyria College. ![]()
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