Satisfied sarcophagi : collected short stories / Joyce Mansour ; translated by C. Francis Fisher ; edited by C. Francis Fisher and Garrett Caples.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mansour, Joyce, 1928-1986, Author.

Contributor:

Fisher, C. Francis, translator, editor.

Caples, Garrett T., editor.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Mansour, Joyce, 1928-1986--Translations into English.

Mansour, Joyce.

Mansour, Joyce, 1928-1986.

Genre:

short stories.

Fiction

Short stories

Translations

Short stories.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

167 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : City Lights, [2026]

Summary:

"Egyptian exile Joyce Mansour was one of the most important writers to join André Breton's Paris Surrealist group after the Second World War. This exciting follow-up to City Lights' acclaimed selection of Mansour's poems (Emerald Wounds, 2023) is a milestone in the ongoing rediscovery of one of the most powerful voices of 20th-century Surrealism. Known during her lifetime primarily as a poet, Mansour also published a small but significant body of prose. Satisfied Sarcophagi collects her complete short stories, drawing from her two collections published in France, Les Gisantes Satisfaits (1958) and Ça (1970). Mansour portrays a universe of constant transformation and constant violence, weaving an eroticized surrealist texture from unsettling areas of the psyche, replete with Sadean excess, incestuous relations, and her usual complement of bodily fluids. In "Mary, or the Honor of Serving," the protagonist endures a series of grotesque events, deciding to remain with her murderous lover rather than escape to a banal bourgeois life. "Cancer" depicts a boy's obsession with an old woman's hump, which threatens to subsume her. "The Tip" and "Infinitely . . . on the Lawn" explore oedipal struggles, the one featuring a gender-switching protagonist caught between the family maid and his mother, the other a woman and her mother sharing the same lover. Other stories like "Dolman the Evil" and "Sunday Shakes" concern demonic beings of uncertain origin. With Satisfied Sarcophagi-brought into English by noted Mansour translator C. Francis Fisher-Joyce Mansour rightly claims her place as a take-no-prisoners bad-girl progenitor of a growing body of women's writing known in the 21st century as "fantastic/erotic horror.""-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Translated from the French.

Other Format:

Online version Mansour, Joyce, 1928-1986 Satisfied sarcophagi

ISBN:

9780872869202

0872869202

OCLC:

1564307515