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Satisfied Sarcophagi: Collected Short Stories
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Leonora Carrington Meets Georges Bataille In These Outlandish Surrealist Tales.Mansour Saw In The Erotic The Possibilities For Individual And Collective Freedom. Inside The Void, A Reimagining Of The Self And The World Can Occur, Illuminating New Ways To Live That Contrast With The Default World Of The Everyday.Ama Kwarteng, Los Angeles Review Of Booksegyptian Exile Joyce Mansour Was One Of The Most Important Writers To Join Andr BretonS Paris Surrealist Group After The Second World War. This Exciting FollowUp To City Lights Acclaimed Selection Of MansourS Poems (Emerald Wounds, 2023) Is A Milestone In The Ongoing Rediscovery Of One Of The Most Powerful Voices Of 20ThCentury Surrealism. Known During Her Lifetime Primarily As A Poet, Mansour Also Published A Small But Significant Body Of Prose. Satisfied Sarcophagi Collects Her Complete Short Stories, Drawing From Her Two Collections Published In France, Les Gisantes Satisfaits (1958) And a (1970).Mansour Portrays A Universe Of Constant Transformation And Constant Violence, Weaving An Eroticized Surrealist Texture From Unsettling Areas Of The Psyche, Replete With Sadean Excess, Incestuous Relations, And Her Usual Complement Of Bodily Fluids. In Mary, Or The Honor Of Serving, The Protagonist Endures A Series Of Grotesque Events, Deciding To Remain With Her Murderous Lover Rather Than Escape To A Banal Bourgeois Life. Cancer Depicts A BoyS Obsession With An Old WomanS Hump, Which Threatens To Subsume Her. The Tip And Infinitely . . . On The Lawn Explore Oedipal Struggles, The One Featuring A GenderSwitching Protagonist Caught Between The Family Maid And His Mother, The Other A Woman And Her Mother Sharing The Same Lover. Other Stories Like Dolman The Evil And Sunday Shakes Concern Demonic Beings Of Uncertain Origin. With Satisfied SarcophagiBrought Into English By Noted Mansour Translator C. Francis FisherJoyce Mansour Rightly Claims Her Place As A TakeNoPrisoners BadGirl Progenitor Of A Growing Body Of WomenS Writing Known In The 21St Century As Fantastic/Erotic Horror.
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