“...what I enjoy in a narrative is not directly its content or even its structure, but rather the abrasions I impose upon the fine surface: I read on, I skip, I look up, I dip in again. Which has nothing to do with the deep laceration the text of bliss inflicts upon language itself, and not upon the simple temporality of its reading.”

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Fragments d'un discours amoureux

1977

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Mythologies

1957

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Sade, Fourier, Loyola

1971

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Degré zéro de l'écriture

1967

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Image-Music-Text

1977

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