The Sexual Night Blockprint Through these examples

Through these examples

the leading phenomenological philosopher in France who was the lead editor of the influential leftist journal Les Temps modernes

able to articulate paradoxes that in another writer’s hands might be ineffable

By employing a visual language or style that is not too loaded towards one meaning or emotion

The Sexual Night Blockprint Through these examplesIn 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 Drer 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