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PublisherSeagull Books

ISBN-100857422065

ISBN-139780857422064

eBay Product ID (ePID)201680549

Product Key Features

Book TitleSexual Night

Number of Pages124 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2015

TopicSubjects & Themes / Erotica, Subjects & Themes / General

IllustratorYes

GenreArt

AuthorPascal Quignard

Book SeriesThe French List Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight18.1 Oz

Item Length0.8 in

Item Width0.7 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2014-362297

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

Reviews The Sexual Night explores much more thoroughly and universally than ever before this 'invisible' sexual scene that founds and forever affects us. . . . A thoroughly stimulating book.

Dewey Decimal704.9428

Table Of ContentForeword Dido and Aeneas The Invisible Scene Lot and His Daughters Noah and His Sons Noli Me Tangere Mary Magdalene Nyx and Nox Sleep and Dreams Lascaux Golgotha Saint Augustine and Desiderio The Nether World The Wild Beasts Saturn Voyeurism Actaeon and Diana Mars and Venus Baubo and Demeter A French Scene A Chinese Primal Scene The Origin of The World The Origin of Painting Eros and Psyche Leander and Hero The Last Image The Fourth Night Esto Es Lo Que Hay Notes

SynopsisIn The Sexual Night , renowned French writer and critic Pascal Quignard meditates on a remarkable collection of illustrations of sexual imagery. He moves from the annals of global art to ancient and modern, from Bosch and D rer to Rembrandt and Tintoretto, from Caspar David Friedrich and Caravaggio to Bacon and Jean Rustin. The meditations are wonderfully woven together, presenting a reflection on the sexual image that psychoanalysis calls "the primal scene"--a concept introduced by Freud as the first sexual scene witnessed by a child; a scene that is unexplained, unforgettable, and ultimately haunting. Throughout the course of twenty-seven chapters that draw on the mythological and artistic resources of Western and Far Eastern culture--including the tragic love of Dido and Aeneas; the scandalous figure of Mary Magdalene; Lascaux and Golgotha; voyeurism and melancholy; Saint Augustine and Freud--the book is a disquisition on vision, temporality, generation, and creation in all its forms. Forty-eight brilliant and sensual color images accompany the text, as Quignard questions the origin of our being and explains the unexplainable, while noted translator Chris Turner lends a crisp voice to the entire collection., In The Sexual Night , renowned French writer and critic Pascal Quignard meditates on a remarkable collection of illustrations of sexual imagery. He moves from the annals of global art to ancient and modern, from Bosch and Dürer to Rembrandt and Tintoretto, from Caspar David Friedrich and Caravaggio to Bacon and Jean Rustin. The meditations are wonderfully woven together, presenting a reflection on the sexual image that psychoanalysis calls "the primal scene"-a concept introduced by Freud as the first sexual scene witnessed by a child; a scene that is unexplained, unforgettable, and ultimately haunting. Throughout the course of twenty-seven chapters that draw on the mythological and artistic resources of Western and Far Eastern culture-including the tragic love of Dido and Aeneas; the scandalous figure of Mary Magdalene; Lascaux and Golgotha; voyeurism and melancholy; Saint Augustine and Freud-the book is a disquisition on vision, temporality, generation, and creation in all its forms. Forty-eight brilliant and sensual color images accompany the text, as Quignard questions the origin of our being and explains the unexplainable, while noted translator Chris Turner lends a crisp voice to the entire collection., Pascal Quignard's The Sexual Night is an essay built around a remarkable collection of illustrations of sexual imagery from the annals of global art, ancient and modern, from Bosch and Dürer to Rembrandt and Tintoretto, from Caspar David Friedrich and Caravaggio to Bacon and Jean Rustin. It is, initially, a meditation on the image that psychoanalysis calls 'the primal scene', a scene that necessarily precedes the birth of each of us but which we, since we were not born at the time, never see and which, nonetheless, in some sense still haunts us. In 27 concise chapters that draw on the mythological and artistic resources of Western and Far Eastern culture-including chapters on 'Dido and Aeneas', 'Mary Magdalene', 'Lascaux' and 'Golgotha'; on voyeurism and melancholy; on Saint Augustine and Freud-the book is a short but remarkably dense, disquisition on vision, temporality, generation and creation in all its forms. As the French publisher so concisely puts it, '[Quignard] raises the question of the origin of being and gives expression to the ineffable'.

LC Classification NumberN8217.E6