Word: autoeroticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sex & War. Explicit or perverted sex in novels is hardly news, but this year some weighty literary reputations are writing almost exclusively about sex. John Updike's Couples, said to be the "big book" that critics have accused him of shirking for years, is about ten married or mismarried...
Sartre plunges earthily to the center of all this confusion. "Seeking excitement and pleasure," he explains, "Genet starts enveloping himself in his images as a polecat envelops itself in its odor." Darling Daintyfoot and Divine are projections of Genet's imagination, conjured up to excite himself as he lay...