Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Ubilluz, Juan Carlos, 1968-

Publication

Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press, c2006.

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Details

Description

356 p.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

The Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory

Subjects

• Klossowski, Pierre > Influence
• Holy, The, in literature
• Erotic stories, Spanish American > History and criticism
• Bataille, Georges, 1897-1962 > Influence
• Spanish American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
• Mysticism in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-350) and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 06-8351

ISBN

0838756255 (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2005023721
• 9780838756256

OCLC

61352991

Author

Ubilluz, Juan Carlos, 1968-

Title

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

Imprint

Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press, c2006.

Series

The Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-350) and index.

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Other Standard Identifier

9780838756256

Research Call Number

JFE 06-8351