Such a Deathly Desire

Such a Deathly DesireProvocative essays on language, literature, and the aesthetics of embodiment. Shocking, brilliant, and eccentric, the French author, translator, and artist Pierre Klossowski (19052001) exerted a profound effect on French intellectual culture throughout the twentieth century. The older brother of the painter Balthus, secretary to the novelist Andr Gide, friend to Georges Bataille and Maurice Blanchot, and heralded as one of the most important voices in

his behavior soon proves otherwise

detached study of a historic wonder

This chapter reviews these challenges and ways they can be overcome

Staying true to Sukenick's own creative style

and intellectual freedom (EDIIF) can thrive

William Seward

Claims of the miraculous are foundational to faith and skepticism

Sometimes we act in loving ways

The sheer range of subjects discussed

Published the year before Arthur Conan Doyle’s debut

provocations and archival images takes the twentieth anniversary of the founding of one of the sector's most committed champions

and the victim