Andre Malraux: The -Farfelu- As Expression of the Feminine and the Erotic By Domnica Radulescu,
Be it in the light fantastic of his early work, or the classic tragedy of La Condition humaine, or sensuous poetry of the Antimemoires, Andre Malraux uses farfelu and related discourses to represent, not the simple misogyny of his critics, but a complex image of the symbolism of the sexes and of their interrelations notably as regards the erotic, maternal, artistBe it in the light fantastic of his early work, or the classic tragedy of La Condition humaine, or sensuous poetry of the Antimemoires, Andre Malraux uses farfelu and related discourses to represent, not the simple misogyny of his critics, but a complex image of the symbolism of the sexes and of their interrelations notably as regards the erotic, maternal, artistic and other aspects of the feminine As Domnica Radulescu shows, in phenomenological Bachelardian terms, farfelu discourse is part of Malraux s creation through art of a true anti destiny, a cosmic eroticism which recursively forms the primary material of the poetic imagination.
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