Focusing on works by Rene Crevel, Jean-Paul Sartre, Roland Barthes,
and Herve Guibert, this book studies how the figures of
homosexuality function at the limits of narrative, as part of the
deep structure of narrative, and at the border between public and
private discourse. The first three chapters follow the difference
between inside and outside, between public and private, between
what is known and what can only be surmised. The homosexual Rene
Crevel, who is both inside Surrealism and outside it, forces us to
reread the marginalized figure of homosexuality in Surrealism.
Crevel is discussed in light of his most important work, Mon corps
et moi, a sustained effort to negotiate the problems of public and
private personae. Long before concentrating on Jean Genet,
Jean-Paul Sartre often turned to the subject of homosexuality in
his writings of the 1930s and 1940s. The figures and forms of
homosexuality in Sartre's work are shown to relate to a
phenomenology of perception, to a persistence of the relation
between vision and knowledge, and to a set of narrative ploys that
put Sartre's own relation to homosexuality in a new light. The last
of these three chapters focuses on Roland Barthes, with a
retrospective glance at Andre Gide, through an examination of their
travel and confessional writings. Discourses of homosexuality are
related to discourse about social power, dominant structures, and a
model of colonialism. The final chapter examines the AIDS-related
works of Herve Guibert, which are both a meditation on and an
exploration of AIDS, that most public of private phenomena. It also
examines the changing relation between public and private, between
the outside world and Guibert's innerworld, and between the
singularity of literary writing and the nomothetic nature of the
public document, all of which change in a world and in an
individual affected by AIDS.
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