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tabellae-rex-in-sui · 3 years

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I read an article in the WSJ which said that some people were trying to rehabilitate Sade’s reputation (for context, this was mentioned in the same breath as Robespierre, Henry VIII, and some others being less vilified, and then mocked this supposed trend towards seeing hated historical figures more positively) - is this . . . True? Working? & to what extent?? Maybe I just live in a conservative town but no one seems to like him or is even willing to talk about him

I'm assuming you mean this article, which I'll link in case anyone wants to read it... Although it's less of an article and more of a stand-up comedy routine?

But about Sade, yes, definitely. In the 20th century, there were even people who considered him a progressive visionary; especially those in the surrealist movement, who considered Sade a pioneer of the style. A lot of famous surrealists loved him: Salvador Dalí used him as the inspiration for 25 works, there are quite a bit 'imaginary portraits' of Sade including one by Man Ray, Guillaume Appolinaire famously called Sade "the freest spirit that has ever existed" and wrote a book praising him, the final scene of Dalí and Luis Buñel's film L'Age D'or is a very obvious allusion to 120 Days of Sodom, and... who could forget Marquis (1989) [warning, that one's... disturbing. It's the one with the dick puppet. It used to be on YouTube in it's entirety with Eng subtitles, but it seems to have been removed. It's there with Spanish subtitles tho, so if you can understand French and/or read Spanish and want to be scarred for life, there you go]. Anyway, the surrealists are the ones who dubbed him the "Divine Marquis".

There are also other intellectuals who called for a rehabilitation of Sade's image. George Bataille's "The Use Value of D.A.F. de Sade", Angela Carter's "The Sadeian Woman" (which is a feminist reading of Sade), Simone Beauvoir's "Must We Burn Sade?" There are a lot others, but I'll stop there for brevity, cuz I can tell this is going to be a long answer.

Something else that helped the public image of Sade in the 20th century were his descendants, namely, one descendant, Comte Xavier de Sade, Donatien's great-great-grandson (who I posted about here). Xavier had discovered thousands of Donatien's letters and documents in a walled up family library. In 1947, he and poet Gilbert Lély begun the process of sorting through them. They were eventually published. Though Xavier himself is Catholic, found himself unable to read Donatien's books, and stayed out of the moral debates about him, his discovery led to more intimate biographies, keeping fascination in Donatien alive into this century (not to mention people now knew domestic details, which is always humanizing). While we're talking about descendants, and this is just a fun fact, Marie-Laure Noailles who was close personal friends of the surrealists including Ray, Buñel, and Dalí (and funded L'Age D'or), was a direct descendant of Sade. His great-great-great-granddaughter. She was interviewed by Francine du Plessix-Gray, she's quite the character.

Today, the wild praise for Sade has somewhat died down. I don't see much of it anymore, at least in academic spaces. I do think there are still echos of it though. Some modern bios I find a bit too sympathetic towards him (Du Plessix-Gray's bio and Lever's bio have their moments). His fictional portrayals are also generally kind, making him more of a Joker type character, but not the antagonist (Assassin's Creed is an obvious example, Quills (2000) too). Basically, any work where his inflammatory writing is mentioned, but not his actual crimes like, y'know, rape. He's often used as a martyr for anti-censorship/freedom of speech. Which is odd, cuz, you can morally defend his writing, whatever, it's fiction... but he's also a very real rapist. So, not sure how great a symbol he is on that front. Maybe use someone who isn't the human embodiment of the "slippery slope" argument conservatives love using. And then there's Assassin's Creed... I mean, you don't even have to play the game to see what they were doing. Just look at Sade's character design. The choice to make him younger and thinner says a lot about what audience reaction they were going for. And in gameplay, he's an ally. I think his role in Assassin's Creed is just a great indicator of public perception of him. Especially when compared to Robespierre's portrayal in game... Also a great indicator of public perception. So yeah, the pro-Sade sentiments of the 20th century have not entirely worn off.

I'll leave you with this 2015 review on a Musée d’Orsay exhibition on Sade where the reviewer calls Sade a "badass" in the first paragraph. I think it does a good job of showing how a lot of people view Sade as this anti-establishment, sly, smart, raunchy, rebel.

#if only people knew how traditional his political; familial; and economic beliefs really were #and that his philosophy was really not meant to apply to anyone but himself #and his actual crimes. not jist hos literary ones #i could give a shit what someone writes #but he acted on quite a bit #i dont think people know that #and yeah i know Quills (2000) mentions Sade's case history #but its said in passing by the hypocritical antagonist and Coulmier immediately states that Sade has changed #which was not true. and would have been obvious if they hadn't aged up Madeleine and aged down Sade dhdbdjdj #but i guess the teen/70yr old dynamic would have made our protagonist less sympathetic #i know ive said before im not bothered by Quills' historical inaccuracy since it doesn't aim to be accurate. and I'm not #but the whole 'Sade as a martyr of free speech' thing does bother me.. for all the reasons i just said #...theres so many other people to give that lable to; man #you could easily portray sade as a complicated character; protagonist (as in main character; not hero); human character #but the free-speech-martyr / Joker-archetype thing is tired #i know i went off on this response; but theres just a long history on the moral debates surrounding Sade #and a good chunk of time when defending Sade (person and philosophy) was the mainstream in liberal spaces #and ACU Sade is a great example of the lasting effects #tw: rape mention #ask #anon ask

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alexar60 · 5 years

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La dernière expo en vogue

L’exposition avait un énorme succès. Les gens venaient du monde entier pour admirer les tableaux et sculptures de cette nouvelle vague. Les œuvres les plus appréciées furent les peintures dites pleines car elles ne contenaient qu’une seule couleur. Le blanc et le noir prédominaient les autres. Certaines couleurs comme le rose et le violet étaient interdites, considérées comme sexuelles. On était loin des paysages de Matisse, de l’art contemporain ou encore des chefs-d’œuvre de la Renaissance. Les gens passaient, regardaient, critiquaient ou applaudissaient le culot de la censure. Au sujet du tableau tout bleu, un homme murmura à un ami que cela manquait de trait. Son pote répondit que le trait apporterait hélas une connotation érotique au portrait ; il y avait un risque de confondre avec la fente d’une femme.

Les statues se ressemblaient toutes. Elles étaient carrées, certaines plus grandes que d’autres. L’une d’elle avait pour titre : « Nu féminin ». Un visiteur s’exclama en précisant voir un concept osé, fort et splendide. Sa convive ajouta qu’elle adorait parce que la forme ne montrait rien de pervers. C’était juste un cube.

Au cours d’une discussion une femme parlait de ses prochaines vacances à Biarritz. Une autre lui demanda si l’opération était réussie, la dame répondit oui fièrement et maintenant elle pourra aller à la plage seins nus car elle n’a plus de tétons. Une discussion concernait la future loi qui devait bannir du vocabulaire les mots ayant un sens libidineux. Un employé blagua sur le fait de bientôt interdire le mot ‘culture’ car il contenait ‘cul’.

A l’entrée, les gens pouvaient lire le programme des futures expositions. La prochaine appelée ‘l’auto des fées’ commencera dans deux mois. Elle sera interactive puisque les visiteurs pourront participer et contribuer à l’œuvre. D’ailleurs les nombreuses inscriptions annoncent déjà un grand succès. Mais maintenant que l’humanité est formaté à la censure, qui n’est pas intéressé de bruler des livres interdits ? Qui n’a jamais rêvé de détruire les œuvres du Marquis de Sade ainsi que de nombreuses documentations pornos ? Qui n’a jamais cherché à déchirer les pages du Roman d’Apollinaire, les 11000 verges ? Qui n’a jamais eu envie de bousiller à coup de massue les statues de Claudel ou Rodin ? De plus chaque clôture s’achèvera avec la mise à tabac par le public d’une prostituée prise en flagrant délit de racolage avec ablation du nez et des oreilles, pour rendre hommage à Louis XIV. Pourquoi Louis XIV ? Comme ça, parce que l’artiste organisateur est un admirateur.

Alex@r60 – Mai 2019

#Alex@r60 #texte #french #français #censure #fantasy

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books read in 2019

january

1.The Little Mermaid — Hans Christian Andersen (1837) (audio)

2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button — F. Scott Fitzgerald (1922) (audio)

3. Jungle River — Howard Pease (1938)

4. Lolita — Vladimir Nabokov (1955)

5. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence — Robert M. Pirsig (1974)

6. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — Robert Louis Stevenson (1886)

7. Crome Yellow — Aldous Huxley (1921)

8. The Story of the Eye — George Bataille (1921)

february

9. The Immoralist — Andre Gide (1902)

10. 1984 — George Orwell (1949) (audio) (2nd time)

11. The Catcher in the Rye — J.D. Salinger (1951) (audio) (2nd time)

12. Animal Farm — George Orwell (1945) (audio) (2nd time)

13. The Woodlanders — Thomas Hardy (1877)

14. Descartes in 90 Minutes — Paul Strathern (1996)

15. Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë (1847)

march

16. Discourse on the Method (1637) (in Heffernan) & 16.5 The Search After Truth by the Light of Nature — René Descartes

17. Bilingual “Discourse on the Method” & Essays — Descartes & George Heffernan (1994)

18. Autobiography — John Stuart Mill (1873)

19. Méditations — René Descartes (1641)

20. Discourse on Method and Related Writings — René Descartes (Penguin Classics) incl. le monde et les règles

21. Meno — Plato (385 BC) (audio)

22. Crito — Plato (audio)

23. Poetics — Aristotle (audio)

24. The Apology — Plato (audio)

25. Phaedo — Plato (audio)

26. Five Dialogues — Plato (euthyphro, apology, crito, meno, phaedo) (2nd time except euthyphro)

27. Ion - Plato

28. The Art of Loving — Erich Fromm (1956)

29. On Liberty — J.S. Mill (1859)

april

30. A History of Knowledge — Charles Van Doren (1991)

31. Why I am So Wise — Friedrich Nietzsche (Penguin abridged Ecce Homo) (1908)

32. The Varieties of Religious Experience — William James (1902)

33. Pragmatism — William James (1907)

34. Candide — Voltaire (1759)

35. Short stories by Voltaire — Zadig, Micromegas, The World as it Is, Memnon, Bababec, Scarmentados Travels, Plato’s Dream, Jesuit Berthier, Good Brahman, Jeannot and Colin, An Indian Adventure, Ingenuous, One-Eyed Porter, Memory’s Adventure, Chaplain Goudman (1747-1775)

36. The Great Conversation — Robert M. Hutchins (1952)

may

37. Aeschylus’ Oresteia Trilogy & Prometheus Bound (458 BC) — Laurel Classical Drama (1965)

38. Sophocles’ Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes (~400 BC) — Laurel Classical Drama (1965)

39. Euripides’ Medea, Hippolytus, Alcestis, The Bacchae (~430 BC) — Laurel Classical Drama (1965)

40. Mythology — Edith Hamilton (1940)

41. Erewhon — Samuel Butler (1872)

42. The Iliad — Homer (850 BC)

43. The Little Prince — Antoine de Saint Exupery (1943)

44. Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound (2nd time), The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, The Persians (Penguin Classics)

45. Teaching From the Balance Point — Edward Kreitman (Suzuki guide — 1998)

june

46. Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex (2nd time), Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (2nd time) (Penguin Classics)

47. The Odyssey — Homer (850 BC)

48. The Secret Garden — Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911)

49. Coraline — Neil Gaiman (2002)

50. The Lost Art of Reading — David Ulin (2010)

51. Sophocles’ Ajax, Electra (2nd time), Women of Trachis, Philoctetes (2nd time) (Penguin Classics)

52. The House of the Seven Gables — Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851)

53. The Awakening — Kate Chopin (1899) (audio)

54. Straight is the Gate — André Gide (1924)

55. Wuthering Heights — Emily Brontë (1847)

56. Journey to the Center of the Earth — Jules Verne (1864) (audio)

57. East of Eden — John Steinbeck (1952)

58. Sons and Lovers — D.H. Lawrence (1913)

59. Grapes of Wrath — John Steinbeck (1939) (audio)

july

60. Attached — Amir Levine (2010) (audio)

61. The Prophet — Khalil Gibran (1923) (audio)

62. The Four Agreements — Don Miguel Ruiz (1997) (audio) (2nd time)

63. The Transparent Self — Sidney Jourard (1964)

64. The Return of the Native — Thomas Hardy (1878)

65. The Souls of Black Folk — W.E.B Du Bois (1903) (audio)

66. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) (audio)

67. The Call of the Wild — Jack London (1903) (audio)

68. The Importance of Being Earnest — Oscar Wilde (1895) (audio) (2nd time)

69. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz — L. Frank Baum (1900) (audio)

70. The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde (1890) (audio)

71. Justine — Marquis de Sade (1791)

72. Love and Will — Rollo May (1969)

73. Nine Stories — J.D. Salinger (1953)

74. The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution — P.D. Ouspensky (1950)

75. The Good Earth — Pearl S. Buck (1931) (audio)

76. The Symposium — Plato (385-370 BC)

77. Children’s Stories by Oscar Wilde (1888)

august

78. Plato’s Apology (3rd time), Crito (3rd time) ; Laches, Gorgias (audio)

79. Plato’s Greater Hippias, Phaedrus (audio)

80. The Scarlet Letter — Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850) (audio)

81. Plato’s Phaedo (3rd time), Euthyphro (3rd time); Charmides

82. Eyeless in Gaza — Aldous Huxley (1936)

83. A Little History of the World — E. F. Gombrich (1936) (audio)

84. Waiting for Godot — Samuel Beckett (1953)

85. Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy (1877)

86. A Little History of Literature — John Southerland (2013)

87. Sartor Resartus — Thomas Carlyle (1831)

88. Macbeth — Shakespeare (1606)

september

89. An Apology for Idlers — Robert Louis Stevenson (Penguin Great Ideas collection of essays) (1877)

90. The Cloister and the Hearth — Charles Reade (1861)

91. How to Read a Book — Mortimer Adler & Charles van Doren (1972) (audio)

92. Robinson Crusoe — Daniel Defoe (1719) (audio)

93. The Story of Art — E. H. Gombrich (1950)

94. The Moonstone — Wilkie Collins (1868)

95. Emma — Jane Austen (1816)

96. Daughters & Mothers: Mothers & Daughters — Signe Hammer (1975)

97. Looking Back — Edward Bellamy (1888)

98. Franny & Zooey — J.D. Salinger (1955)

99. Persuasion — Jane Austen (1817)

100. Sense and Sensibility — Jane Austen (1811) (audio and 2011 Annotated edition!!!)

101. The Aspern Papers — Henry James (1888)

october

102. Death of a Salesman — Arthur Miller (1949)

103. Brave New World — Aldous Huxley (1932) (audio)

104. Dhalgren — Samuel R. Delaney (1974)

105. Mansfield Park — Jane Austen (1814)

106. Northanger Abbey — Jane Austen (1817)

107. Rebecca — Daphne Du Maurier (1938)

108. Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen (1813) (second time) (audio)

109. The American — Henry James (1877)

110. Washington Square — Henry James (1880)

111. The Europeans — Henry James (1878)

112. Watch and Ward — Henry James (1871)

113. Roderick Hudson — Henry James (1875)

114. Confidence — Henry James (1879)

115. Portrait of a Lady — Henry James (1881)

116. I’ll Never Be French — Marc Greenside (2008)

117. The Bostonians -- Henry James (1886)

118. Henry James short stories Vol. I 1864-1874 -- A Tragedy of Error; The Story of a Year; A Landscape Painter; A Day of Days; My Friend Bingham; Poor Richard, The Story of a Masterpiece; The Romance of Certain Old Clothes; A Most Extraordinary Case; A Problem; De Grey: A Romance; Osbourne’s Revenge, A Light Man, Gabrielle de Bergerac, Travelling Companions, A Passionate Pilgrim, At Isella, Master Eustace, Guest’s Confession, The Madonna of the Future, The Sweetheart of M. Briseaux, The Last of the Valerii, Madame de Mauves, Adina

119. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul -- Douglas Adams (1988)

120. French Children Don’t Throw Food -- Pamela Druckerman (2012)

121. Au Contraire: Figuring Out the French -- Asselin & Mastron (2001)

122. Henry James: The Young Master -- Sheldon Novick (1997)

123. Henry James short stories Vol. II 1875-1884 Professor Fargo, Eugene Pickering, Benvolio, Crawford’s Consistency, The Ghostly Rental, Four Meetings, Rose-Agathe, Daisy Miller, Longstaff’s Marriage, An International Episode, The Pension Beaurepas, The Diary of a Man of Fifty, A Bundle of Letters, The Point of View, The Siege of London, The Impressions of a Cousin, Lady Barberina, The Author of Beltraffio, Pandora

124. The Trail of the Serpent -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1860)

125. The Silent Language -- Edward T. Hall (1959)

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current reading list for 2019

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CURRENTLY READING Erotism: Death and Sensuality by Georges Bataille Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire Violence and the Sacred by René Girard Selected Prose of Heinrich von Kleist

TO READ to resume The Horror Reader edited by Ken Gilder The Collected Works of Clarice Lispector Là-Bas by J.K. Huysman On Touching by Jacques Derrida Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection by Julia Kristeva

novels The Border of Paradise by Esmé Weijun Wang Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (reread) Justine by Lawrence Durrell Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (reread) I’m Starved For You by Margaret Atwood The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood The Name of the Rose (reread) by Umberto Eco The Letters of Mina Harker by Dodie Bellamy Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille Sunshine by Robin McKinley Nightwood by Djuna Barnes Malina by Ingeborg Bachman The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride Enfermario by Gabriela Torres Olivares Monsieur Venus by Rachilde The Marquise de Sade by Rachilde

Hannibal Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris Monsters of our own Making by Marina Warner “Monsters of Perversion: Jeffrey Dahmer and The Silence of the Lambs” by Diana Fuss

short stories The Wilds by Julia Elliot The Dark Dark by Samantha Hunt Severance by Robert Olen Butler

poetry Extracting the Stone of Madness by Alejandra Pizarnik The Complete Poems by William Blake Unholy Sonnets by Mark Jarman collected works of Charles Baudelaire collected works of Arthur Rimbaud

theatre Faust by Goethe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

nonfiction (history, biography, memoir) Love's executioner and other tales of psychotherapy / Irvin D. Yalom. Countess Dracula by Tony Thorne The Bloody Countess by Valentine Penrose Infamous Lady: The True Story of Countess Erzsebet Bathory by Kimberly L. Craft Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History by Bill Schmutt Afterlives: The Return of the Dead in the Middles Ages by Nancy Caciola Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici Blake by Peter Akroyd The Trial of Gilles de Rais by Georges Bataille The Marquis de Sade by Rachilde Blake by Peter Akroyd Dinner with a Cannibal: The Complete History of Mankind's Oldest Taboo by Carole A. Travis-Henikoff The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan Emily Brontë by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson Lives of the Necromancers by William Godwin A History of the Heart by Ole M. Høystad In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

essays When the Sick Rule the World by Dodie Bellamy Academonia by Dodie Bellamy The Body of Frankenstein's Monster by Cecil Helman

academia Monsters of Our Own Making by Marina Warner Monster Culture in the 21st Century: A Reader edited by by Marina Levina and Diem My Bui Essays on the Art of Angela Carter: Flesh and the Mirror edited by Lorna Sage The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Donna Lee Brien

the gothic Woman and Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth by Nina Auerbach Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters by J. Halberstam Perils of the Night: A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century Gothic by Eugenia C. Delamotte Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic by Anne Williams Body Gothic: Corporeal Transgression in Contemporary Literature and Horror Film by Xavier Aldana Reyes On the Supernatural in Poetry by Ann Radcliffe The Gothic Flame by Devendra P. Varma Gothic Versus Romantic: A Reevaluation of the Gothic Novel by Robert D. Hume A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke Over Her Dead Body by Elisabeth Bronfen The Contested Castle: Gothic Novels and the Subversion of Domestic Ideology by Kate Ellis Gothic Documents: A Sourcebook, 1700-1820 by E. Clery Limits of Horror: Technology, Bodies, Gothic edited by Fred Botting The History of Gothic Fiction by Markman Ellis The Routledge Companion to the Gothic edited by Catherine Spooner and Emma McEvoy Gothic and Gender edited by Donna Heiland Romanticism and the Gothic Tradition by G.R. Thompson Cryptomimesis : The Gothic and Jacques Derrida's Ghost Writing by Jodie Castricano

religion The Incorruptible Flesh: Bodily Mutation and Mortification in Religion and Folklore by Piero Camporesi Discerning Spirits: Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages by Nancy Caciola “He Has a God in Him”: Human and Divine in the Modern Perception of Dionysus by Albert Henrichs The Ordinary Business of Occultism by Gauri Viswanathan The Body and Society. Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity by Peter Brown

cannibalism Eat What You Kill: Or, a Strange and Gothic Tale of Cannibalism by Consent Eat What You Kill: Or, a Strange and Gothic Tale of Cannibalism by Consent Charles J. Reid Jr. Consuming Passions: The Uses of Cannibalism in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Merrall Llewelyn Price Cannibalism in High Medieval English Literature by Heather Blurton Eating Their Words: Cannibalism and the Boundaries of Cultural Identity edited by Kristen Guest

crime Savage Appetites by Rachel Monroe In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

theory/philosophy Life Everlasting: the animal way of death by Bernd Heinrich The Ambivalence of Scarcity and Other Essays by René Girard Interviews with Hélène Cixous Symposium by Plato Phaedra by Plato Becoming-Rhythm: A Rhizomatics of the Girl by Leisha Jones The Abject of Desire: The Aestheticization of the Unaesthetic in Contemporary Literature and Culture edited by Konstanze Kutzbach, Monika Mueller The Severed Head: Capital Visions by Julia Kristeva

perfume & alchemy Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent by Jean-Claude Ellena The Perfume Lover: A Personal Story of Scent by Denyse Beaulieu Past Scents: Historical Perspectives on Smell by Jonathan Reinarz Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent by Mandy Aftel Das Parfum by Patrick Süskind Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture by Catherine Maxwell “The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Perfume”

medicine Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery by Richard Hollingham Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzharris

articles “The Dread Gorgon” by Caroline Alexander “Ruggiero’s Deceptions, Cherubino’s Distractions” by Mary Reynolds “A Thing of Shreds and Patches” by J’Lyn Chapman “Dissection” by Meehan Crist

unsorted Dwellings of the Philosophers by Fulcanelli Mysteries of the Cathedrals by Fulcanelli Jean Cocteau, from ‘Orphée’ The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio*

FINISHED Red Dragon by Thomas Harris The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris Hannibal by Thomas Harris Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi (reread) Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez (reread) Painting Their Portraits in Winter: Stories by Myriam Gurba The Sadeian Woman by Angela Carter the collected poems of Emily Brontë Fearful Symmetry by Northrop Frye A Monster’s Notes by Laurie Sheck Cain by José Saramago House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (reread) Such Small Hands by Andres Barba House of Incest by Anaïs Nin Macbeth by William Shakespeare Hannibal Lecter and Philosophy: The Heart of the Matter edited by Joseph Westfall The Body: An Essay by Jenny Boully A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes Carmilla by Sheridan le Fanu Cabinet of Curiosities by Guillermo del Toro John Donne’s Holy Sonnets Surfacing by Margaret Atwood Literature and Evil by Georges Bataille Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi Richard III by William Shakespeare The Dead Seagull by George barker Power Politics by Margaret Atwood

#sp #reading list #bookmark

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LIVRE : ETIENNE DAHO « L’ÉDEN RETROUVÉ » De Frédéric Tallieux - Editions Le Mot et le Reste 456 pages (14,8 x 21,0cm) 27.00 € https://lemotetlereste.com/musiques/etiennedaho/ Étienne Daho investit les ondes au début des années quatre-vingt, dans le giron du mouvement rock rennais, et devient rapidement incontournable, en ce qu’il s’inscrit parfaitement dans son époque avec des titres comme « Week-end à Rome » ou « Sortir ce soir ». Le succès propulse ainsi le jeune chanteur comme l’essentiel représentant d’une pop à la française – naviguant entre chanson, new wave et synth-pop – qu’il parviendra à réinventer au fil de ses treize albums. L’auteur s’attache à remonter le parcours du chanteur en s’appuyant sur propres recherches, mais aussi sur les témoignages de celles et ceux qui l’ont accompagné – Brigitte Fontaine, Françoise Hardy, Serge Gainsbourg, Jacques Dutronc, Jeanne Moreau, Marquis de Sade, Jacno et Medeiros, Dominique A, Rone –, afin de brosser le riche portrait d’un artiste global, indifférent aux frontières entre les formes d’art.

#etienne daho #le mot et le reste #l'eden retrouvé #Frédéric Tallieux #eden #edentour

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La vie bohème ...The Paris apartment of Man Ray's widow, Juliet, on the rue d'Assas in Paris, overlooking Jardin du Luxembourg, as photographed by Rene Stoeltie for The World of Interiors, 2006. A portrait of Juliet as a gypsy, Celeste is to the East of the West (1949), hangs above the fireplace next to a bronze bust of the Marquis de Sade. #manray #julietmanray #parisapartment #artistshome #livingwithart #surrealism #surrealisme #modernart #ruedassas #parisinteriors #parisianinteriors #inspiredinteriors #bohemian #objetstrouves #celesteistotheeastofthewest

#surrealism #manray #ruedassas #bohemian #celesteistotheeastofthewest #parisapartment #modernart #livingwithart #inspiredinteriors #julietmanray #parisianinteriors #artistshome #parisinteriors #surrealisme #objetstrouves

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onceuponatimeafrenchgirl · 7 years

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Lorsque j’étais petite (enfin… plus petite que mon 1m50 actuel), j’étais émerveillée devant les danseurs de ballet classique, évoluant gracieusement et aisément sur mon écran de TV. J’avais l’impression qu’ils ne sautaient pas, non… Ils volaient, virevoltaient tels des papillons ou des anges… (soupir admiratif)

Enfant, j’ai fait de la gym pendant 5/6 ans. Une vraie Nadia Comaneci ! J’adorais ça (et encore aujourd’hui, il m’arrive d’y penser avec nostalgie). Mais un jour, lors d’un entraînement digne d’un G.I., splash telle une crêpe, je tombe des barres asymétriques et me ramasse au sol sur le tapis. Résultat des courses (enfin, de la chute) ? Comme j’étais née avec un dos mal foutu, et que le sport intensif que j’avais pratiqué pendant la croissance n’avait pas aidé les choses, voire aggravées, il me fut interdit de pratiquer ce sport ou n’importe quel autre du même genre.

Après deux ans de rééducation, un essai en patinage (euh… pas de commentaire, s’il vous plait !), je me suis dit : “Pourquoi ne pas pratiquer de la Danse Classique ? J’ai souffert lors des séances d’abdos et de grands écarts, j’ai vécu les compètes telle une Rambo, alors danser avec des “pantoufles” (chaussons)… fingers in the nose !!!”

Pfff, ben voyons… “Et la marmotte met le chocolat dans le papier d’alu…”

Tu parles, au bout d’un trimestre et quelques rondeurs en plus (et oui, résultat de l’adolescence et de l’arrêt brutal de 9 heures de sport par semaine), je me suis vite rendu compte que, finalement, la danse classique ne serait jamais une vocation pour moi. Je continuerais simplement à rester pantoise et admirative devant les belles danseuses étoiles. Et je le suis encore aujourd’hui.

Néanmoins, j’ai toujours rêvé d’assister en direct live à cette performance hors du commun. Entre la chanson, la musique, la comédie et la danse, cette dernière est l’art le plus dur à exprimer.

Et que vois-je, il y a de cela quelques semaines ? “Marie-Claude Pietragalla dansera lors du Festival de Lacoste.” Mais pour entrer dans l’antre de Monsieur Cardin (propriétaire du Château de Lacoste et fondateur du festival), il faut montrer patte blanche. C’est-à-dire faire un crédit sur 10 ans pour assister à un des spectacles (cadre sublissime, mais prix des places horriiiiiiiiiiiblement chères).

Alors, quand un ami m’a offert des places pour aller voir la plus célèbre de nos danseuses étoiles, j’ai hurlé “ouiiiiiiiiiiiii !” Il faut dire aussi que je savais qu’il avait ses “contacts” dans le milieu, alors en réalité, je l’ai tanné comme une malade. Et non, je n’ai pas honte.

J’avais ouïe dire que cette nouvelle adaptation de la “Tentation d’Eve” par La Pietragalla était assez ennuyeuse. Qu’importe ! Je ne me suis jamais laissée influencer par les critiques en bien ou en mal des autres, ce n’était pas ce soir-là que je commencerais.

Après avoir partagé Henry 5 (avec Torreton) dans la Cour d’Honneur du Palais des Papes ensemble, j’allais m’offrir un rendez-vous “père-fille-gilet”. Et oui, le cadre magnifique des carrières du Château de Donatien (Marquis de Sade, ancien propriétaire de la demeure lacostoise) abrite un petit vent d’été non négligeable en soirée.

Nous nous installâmes et patientâmes… Et au bout d’une demi-heure, nous fûmes touchés par la Grâce.

Dès les premières notes de musique, et les premiers pas, MC nous entraîne dans son univers. Telle une fée des temps modernes, elle nous enivre par sa féminité et sa sensualité. Elle nous fait partager sa vision de la femme à travers les époques, depuis qu’Eve a croqué la pomme et perdu le Paradis, jusqu’à nos jours !

Des portraits de femmes célèbres telles que Jeanne d’Arc ou Elizabeth 1ère.

Des portraits si vrais. La vérité pure !

Jamais, je n’aurais cru qu’on puisse exprimer tant de sentiments rien qu’avec son corps…

Pas une minute, je n’ai regardé mon iPhone (je n’ai pas de montre, à bon entendeur – tel n’est pas le sujet du jour !) pour voir quelle heure il était. Juste une fois. A la fin du spectacle… Déjà c’est fini ?! Encore, encore, encore. Encore ! Je veux être émerveillée, tel Bruce Willis dans le “5ème élément” quand il entend la Diva chanter pour le première fois. Encore ! Je veux être émue aux larmes, tout comme Julia Roberts lorsqu’elle assiste à son tout premier opéra dans “Pretty Woman”.

Oui, j’ai été subjuguée par la Grâce et le Génie de Mademoiselle Pietragalla.

Et Dieu créa Marie-Claude Pietragalla…

XoXo, Miss Blabla

NB : mon père, pourtant pas du tout friand de danse contemporaine (voire abstraite), est tombé sous le charme de la célèbre danseuse. Ce fut pour lui une très agréable découverte. Comme quoi…. 🙂

Et Dieu créa la Grâce et le Génie… Lorsque j'étais petite (enfin... plus petite que mon 1m50 actuel), j'étais émerveillée devant les danseurs de ballet classique, évoluant gracieusement et aisément sur mon écran de TV.

#DANSE #EVE #PIETRAGALLA #TENTATION

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