Burqa of Skin is a dense collection of writings from Nelly Arcan, channelling harrowing disenchantment and indignation. From her very first novel, Putain (Seuil, 2001), Arcan shook the literary landscape with her flamboyant lyricism and her preoccupations with such recurring themes as our culture's vertiginous obsession with youth, and its reverse: the draw of death. Now beyond the ripples of scandal Arcan's work has caused, here are the last echoes of her work, and it is as stunning as it is brief. Burqa of Skin, with its gruesome title, catapults her work into contemporary debates on culture and gender. The book collects three previously unpublished works: The Dress, The Child in the Mirror and Shame. The first two are written in the first person, in that turbulent, suffocating language that was Arcan's singular brand, that of a writer on the edge. In the third text, she analyses with inexhaustible ferocity her humiliating experience on the set of a TV talk show. Two lesser-known non-fiction pieces are also included in this collection: a reflection on speed dating and a column published in 2004 titled Suicide Can Be Harmful to Your Health.
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- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C848/.603
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
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- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Translation of: Burqa de chair Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9781772140019 9781772140620
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- PQ3919.3.A78
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- B8713 2014eb
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- 1 electronic text (121 pages)
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- Ottawa, Ontario
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Table of Contents
- Whore 3
- Exit 3
- Hysteric 3
- BURQA OF SKIN 4
- NELLY ARCAN 4
- TABLE OF CONTENTS 6
- PREFACE 10
- Arcan the Philosopher 10
- Putain 10
- Putain Whore Folle Hysteric À ciel ouvert Paradis clef en main Exit 11
- Am I pretty 12
- À ciel ouvert 13
- Filles de joie 15
- Putain magnum opus story 16
- La vie sexuelle de Catherine M The Sexual Life of Catherine M Putain 17
- Burqa of Skin escort Folle Hysteric 17
- The Dog that which it denies with all its strength À ciel ouvert 21
- None of this exists There is nothing but the here and now the pleasure and the power You are immortal you were not born and you will never die. 23
- Folle 24
- Paradis clef en main Paradis clef en main 26
- Death of a Philosopher. 27
- THE DRESS 28
- THE DRESSING GOWN 30
- Dallas Temps dune paix Dames de cœur LHéritage 34
- Oh ah oh no. 42
- THE NEGLIGÉE 44
- THE CHILD IN THE MIRROR 48
- THE CHILD IN THE MIRROR 50
- You have your fathers eyes You will have your first white hairs before you become a woman you have your mothers hair. 62
- SHAME 68
- THE STARE 70
- HOLT RENFREW 80
- Hello Mother goodbye and thank you Mother 84
- Dallas 85
- Dames de cœurs 86
- Francs-tireurs 87
- Francs-tireurs 88
- THE COMMISSION 96
- THE PSYCHIC 106
- SPEED DATING 112
- SPEED DATING 114
- Ally McBeal Sex and the City 114
- KILLING YOURSELF MAY BE HARMFUL TO YOUR HEALTH 118
- KILLING YOURSELF MAY BE 120
- HARMFUL TO YOUR HEALTH 120
- Un pont sécuritaire pour tous A Safe Bridge for All 120