The Misfit of the Family : Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality

在超過九十部小說和小說中，Honore de Balzac（1799-1850）創造了一個擁有超過兩千個角色的宇宙。 “家庭的錯誤”揭示了Balzac如何想像他的小說中密集、生動地呈現的社會世界，將他的寫作作為一種強有力的手段來理解和分析 - 以及代表一系列形式的性行為。Michael Lucey從小說家的作品中脫離了許多精神分析的方法，他認為，為了掌握巴爾扎克所理解性行為的全部複雜性，有必要理解他如何構想其與家庭、歷史、經濟、法律的關係。家庭的錯誤是一個令人信服的論點，即Balzac必須被認真對待，作為主要發明者和分析性與社會之間聯繫的新工具提供者，這是一個令人信服的論點。

Lucey對小說家部署“性騷擾”的描述推動了他的大多數規範作品， Lucey借鑒了Michel Foucault和Pierre Bourdieu的思想，並參與了19世紀法國小說評論家的工作，其中包括Naomi Schor，D.A。

In more than ninety novels and novellas, Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) created a universe teeming with over two thousand characters. The Misfit of the Family reveals how Balzac, in imagining the dense, vividly rendered social world of his novels, used his writing as a powerful means to understand and analyze-as well as represent-a range of forms of sexuality. Moving away from the many psychoanalytic approaches to the novelist's work, Michael Lucey contends that in order to grasp the full complexity with which sexuality was understood by Balzac, it is necessary to appreciate how he conceived of its relation to family, history, economics, law, and all the many structures within which sexualities take form.The Misfit of the Family is a compelling argument that Balzac must be taken seriously as a major inventor and purveyor of new tools for analyzing connections between the sexual and the social.

Lucey's account of the novelist's deployment of "sexual misfits" to impel a wide range of his most canonical works-Cousin Pons, Cousin Bette, Eugenie Grandet, Lost Illusions, The Girl with the Golden Eyes-demonstrates how even the flexible umbrella term "queer" barely covers the enormous diversity of erotic and social behaviors of his characters. Lucey draws on the thinking of Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu and engages the work of critics of nineteenth-century French fiction, including Naomi Schor, D. A.

Miller, Franco Moretti, and others. His reflections on Proust as Balzac's most cannily attentive reader suggest how the lines of social and erotic force he locates in Balzac's work continued to manifest themselves in twentieth-century writing and society.

  Michael Lucey  (Autor)

Publisher:Duke University Press Books 

ISBN:    978-0822331933 

原價   US 22.95 台幣價 NT$870