Tuesday, July 3, 2018

What Remains of a Rembrandt Torn into Four Equal Pieces and Flushed Down the Toilet (Jean Genet 1988)




























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Following the structure of Jean Genet's Ce qui est resté d'un Rembrandt déchiré en petits carrés bien réguliers, et foutu aux chiottes ["What Remains of a Rembrandt Torn Into Four Equal Pieces and Flushed Down the Toilet"], the book is written in two columns in different type sizes. The left column is about Hegel, the right column is about Genet. Each column weaves its way around quotations of all kinds, both from the works discussed and from dictionaries—Derrida's "side notes",[2] described as "marginalia, supplementary comments, lengthy quotations, and dictionary definitions."[3] Sometimes words are cut in half by a quotation which may last several pages. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glas_(book)

In Glas, Derrida’s intertwined study of Hegel and Genet, Derrida dismissed Sartre’s phenomenology as a “misontology”, a perspective that allowed Sartre only superficial access to Genet’s writing; Derrida instead championed his deconstructionist perspective as allowing for a genuine immersion in Genet’s texts (Derrida 1986: 28b).


Churchill, Steven. Jean-Paul Sartre: Key Concepts (p. 219). Taylor and Francis. Kindle edition.