Someone: The Pragmatics of Misfit Sexualities, from Colette to Hervé Guibert

by Michael Lucey

Imagine trying to tell someone something about yourself and your desires for which there are no words. What if the mere attempt at expression was bound to misfire, to efface the truth of that ineluctable something?

In Someone, Michael Lucey considers characters from twentieth-century French literary texts whose sexual forms prove difficult to conceptualize or represent. The characters expressing these "misfit" sexualities gravitate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022660621X
• ISBN13: 9780226606217
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"