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.
Series:
The Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory
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