The sexual night
By: Pascal Quignard ; translated by Chris Turner
Contributors: Turner, Chris, 1953- translator
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780857422064
Subjects: Sex in art; Erotic art; Art and mythology; Death in art
Work titles: Nuit sexuelle
Description: "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."--
Notes: First published in French as La nuit sexuelle.  Flammarion, Paris, c2007.

Translated from the French.