Title: Body [in] parts
First published: 2008
Description: "Body [in] Parts: Bodies and Identity in Sade and Guibert explores the link between Herve Guibert, one of France's most provocative contemporary writers who died of AIDS in 1991, and the Marquis de Sade, the most notorious Enlightenment libertine. In both authors bodies lose their corporeality. They are denied a history through shifting biographies and autobiographies, then lose their physical reality in time. Bodies are objectified and mechanized before being cut up or imprisoned as a way to dehumanize them. Ultimately they become ghosts who haunt the texts."--Jacket.
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation, Body, Human, in literature, Human body in literature, Sade, marquis de, 1740-1814
People: Sade marquis de (1740-1814), Hervé Guibert
LC classification: PQ2063.S3 O73 2008