Oates makes this bit of artistry look easy. The thing that most impressed me was Oates’ ability to use and control a first-person voice that is very clearly not her own. Still, Oates is able to make him a consistently compelling character despite his grotesquely chilling thoughts and behavior. But Quentin as a character is far more like Castaigne than good-hearted Imp: proud, secretive, and sadistic.
I couldn’t help but compare Quentin with two other mentally ill first-person protagonists: Imp in Caitlin Kiernan’s The Drowning Girl: A Memoir and Hildred Castaigne in Robert Chambers’ “The Repairer of Reputations.” The story in Zombie is more like The Drowning Girl in terms of Quentin interacting with his family and therapist and being more impaired at some times than others. One of the things that really struck me about the book is the style of Oates’ first-person narration through his diary entries. Quentin is under the supervision of his worried parents and his court-appointed psychiatrist, but none of them have realized that he’s graduated to serial killing and is trying to find the right victim to lobotomize and turn into his personal zombie sex slave. It’s the epistolary story of Quentin P., the under-achieving son of a college professor who is out on parole after being put on trial for sexually molesting a teenager. In some cases they will be expanded into longer entries as the Literary Encyclopedia evolves.Zombie is a 1995 novel by Joyce Carol Oates.
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