The Sexual Night

Pascal Quignard, Chris Turner

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Seagull Books London Ltd
15 January 2015

Art & Architecture; Theory of art; Erotic art

Series: The French List

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.

By: Pascal Quignard
Translated by: Chris Turner
Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 20mm, Width: 17mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 510g
ISBN: 9780857422064
ISBN 10: 0857422065
Series: The French List
Pages: 124
Publication Date: 15 January 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print

Pascal Quignard is the author of more than sixty books and is widely regarded as one of the most important living writers in French. Chris Turner is a writer and translator who lives in Birmingham, England. He has translated Jean-Paul Sartre's The Aftermath of War, Portraits and Critical Essays and Andre Gorz's Ecologica and The Immaterial, all published by Seagull Books.