Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. An aesthetic of injury: Decadence and aestheticism
  • An aesthetic of injury
  • The literary wound on trial: poetic decadence and Baudelaire's Flowers of evil
  • "Sinnbild der Wunde": the ambivalent aestheticism of Kafka's A country doctor
  • Bataille's bruise: the mutilated writing of The blue of noon (1927/1935/1957)
  • The poetics of omission
  • The textual orifice: holes in Genet's Funeral rites
  • "Ce qui est coupe repousse": Cixous's Breaths (1975) and the poetics of omission
  • The woman on the wall: Bachmann's Malina (1971)
  • Jelinek's and Schroeter's Malina
  • The filmic cut: Jelinek's The piano teacher (1983)
  • Haneke's The piano teacher
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue: The final cut. Quentin Tarantino, or modernism dismembered.