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An Apprenticeship, or the Book of Pleasures
by Clarice Lispector
What the actual fuck. Sublime. Sublime!
This book is totally brilliant and beautiful. I will come back to say more...
Edit: some more to say .
I feel like the gender binary between the female and male lovers of this novel is composed by the sifting of one total set of universals over a grate with two holes, across which the grains of this one total set are shaken and disturbed from side-to-side until the depositories below these holes are evenly filled with grain and the grate on top is cleared of anything still total in form.
To me, that is a great way to write so compellingly a narrative about straight desire with a normative distinction between woman and man.
This book is totally brilliant and beautiful. I will come back to say more...
Edit: some more to say .
I feel like the gender binary between the female and male lovers of this novel is composed by the sifting of one total set of universals over a grate with two holes, across which the grains of this one total set are shaken and disturbed from side-to-side until the depositories below these holes are evenly filled with grain and the grate on top is cleared of anything still total in form.
To me, that is a great way to write so compellingly a narrative about straight desire with a normative distinction between woman and man.