The Sexual Night Blockprint able to articulate paradoxes that

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

Lavishly illustrated with nearly 400 works of art and many hitherto unpublished photographs from personal archives

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The Sexual Night Blockprint able to articulate paradoxes thatIn 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