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Sacred eroticism : Georges Bataille and Pierre Klossowski in the Latin American erotic novel / Juan Carlos Ubilluz.

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Format:: Book
Author/Creator:: Ubilluz, Juan Carlos, 1968-
Series:: Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory; The Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory
Language:: English
Subjects (All):: Klossowski, Pierre.; Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962.; Erotic stories, Spanish American--History and criticism.; Erotic stories, Spanish American.; Spanish American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.; Spanish American fiction.; Mysticism in literature.; Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962--Influence.; Bataille, Georges.; Klossowski, Pierre--Influence.; Holy, The, in literature.
Physical Description:: 356 pages ; 25 cm.
Place of Publication:: Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press, [2006]
Contents:: The literary tremor of erotic mysticism; An intercontinental literary intercourse; The three bataillean impact waves in Latin America; Klossowski's Latin American space; Bataille, Klossowski, and Lacan : the excess in the subject and the writing of the sacred; The sacred obsession of Bataille and Klossowski; The vicissitudes of writing the sacred; Bataille, Lacan, and the uncompromising subject of desire; Klossowski, Lacan, and the gregarious and perverse subjects; Transgressionist poetics; Julio Cortázar's ambivalent surrealist search; Primitivism, romanticism, and surrealism; Cortázar's ambivalent surrealism; Rayuela; Farabeuf : the Sadian taoism of a nouveau Roman; Understanding the novel through its real constants; Farabeuf and the I Ching; The Taming of Bataille in Vargas Llosa's Elogio de la madrastra; The plot, the paintings, and their narrative nexus; The Klossowskian spot in Rigoberto's field of vision; Fonchito : angel or devil?; Vargas Llosa : a mystic in spite of himself; Writing the sacred or writing from (or about) the sacred; Juan García Ponce : The artist as a mystic voyeur; "The perfecting of a love"; Pre-Klossowskian and Klossowskian mystic voyeurism; The Kossowskian gaze from within the Musilian tradition; The laws of hospitality in "Rito"; The laws of hospitality in De anima; Unsubmissive submission; Is García Ponce a Sadian/Elizondian writer?; The simulacrum at the heart of the simulacrum; The death of the author; The Apollinian Machiavelli in Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto; Rigoberto's Laws of hospitality; The plot; The Apollinian and the Dionysian; Vargas Llosa's political project; Return to Bataille; Return to Klossowski; The Politics of the erotic novel; Alejo Carpentier's letter to Georges Bataille.
Notes:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-350) and index.
ISBN:: 0838756255
OCLC:: 61352991
Publisher Number:: 9780838756256

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