With "boxing" Joyce Carol Oates, American novelist of great quality, shares his passion for the noble art and examines the reasons for this fascination. Why is this discipline that can seem at first violent first, inhumane and against civility values we as charm. Are we sadistic? This is the part the most dark and primitive of our nature which is expressed in this passion? or behind this apparent brutality, it would rather a search for purity, but violence certe finally fairer violence? because boxing is it not ultimately less violent and cruel as life. "In the ring you receive only what you deserve" remarks the American novelist ... unlike existence ... Or maybe it should be lighter, do not look for explanations in human nature, his face dark or her dreams but analyze things in a more prosaic. It's an exciting entertainment, there is the technique, strategy, chills, aesthetics, bragging without forgetting the little trickery and other's conniving ... certainly the guys are beaten, sometimes very violent but the vast majority is now over and boxers, boxers least stars you see in televised matches, incredible sums are paid for that ... then no one will pity them .... There can be some truth in all these analyzes possible. Some readers will be less sensitive in terms of Joyce Carol Oates on the noble art. But for me, as a new lover of this modern practice of pugilism heiress (I am passionate about boxing for 2 years only before-I was mostly football and tennis) who never gloved, I felt felt very close to Oates. These insights and reflections on the fascination of the noble art were arrested right after me and I found myself in the portrait it paints of the lover of the ring. Moreover, his thinking is based on a good knowledge of the history of this sport: key figures, legendary matches, social and political context and of course rumors or famous Entourloupe ... Finally a good knowledge US centered. The biggest flaw of the book but predictable before purchase. The united states turn closed circuit therefore even its great writers and artists of all kinds tend to be. The test would have been called "boxing the United States"; At the same time, the reflections offered on the noble art, through its almost exclusively American history are universally valid.
