Public Seminar has Andrei Platonov’s short story “Antisexus”, a provisional translation by Anna Kalashyan of an occasional piece by Platonov. In ‘Antisexus’ (1925-26), Platonov writes in a parodic vein about what Béatriz Préciado calls the sex-gender industrial complex. The production of gendered and sexualized bodies via technologies of the image and the orgasm appears here […]
Tag: Miguel de Unamuno
A street artist portraying Unamuno, Barcelona, 2006 Photograph by luna (follow the source link for more pictures) Picture sourceI didn’t provide any online resources for Unamuno or Mist, but hopefully I’ll get to more of his works soon and can do so at that time. Links for posts related to Mist: Mist discussion Quotes from […]
I don’t feel too bad “giving away” the ending or the plot twist in previous posts since Unamuno talks of Augusto’s death in the Prologue as well as begins the author’s playful take on the blurring fiction and reality. Unamuno has one of his characters (Victor Goti) write the Prologue, which allows the author to […]
The character Augusto Pérez, upon feeling suicidal, visits author Miguel de Unamuno: ”Very well, then. The truth is, my dear Augusto,” I spoke to him the softest of tones, “you can’t kill yourself because you are not alive; and you are not alive—or dead either—because you do not exist.” “I don’t exist! What do you […]
In which I give away the ending and hint at a major plot twist in Mist: And I even suspect that while I have been explaining and commenting this Life of Don Quixote, I have secretly been visited by the two of them, and that without my being aware of it they have unfolded and […]