On 04/08/12 18:10, chris Jones wrote:
> not too obscure
I wish I had this book with me to read again...
http://books.google.com.au/books/about/Crack_Wars.html?id=gtEDdDkQCpEC&redir_esc=y
Avital Ronell Crack Wars
Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary takes up the problems of drugs and
addiction in numerous ways, which Ronnell unpacks and presents as
examples of the safe and unsafe. From Emma Bovary's romantic
hallucinations to her suicide by arsenic, she moves through this
realistic novel constantly reaching for the unreal. For Ronell, Emma
Bovary represents the first addict, embodying a yearning that calls from
the bottom of her humanity, and which it seems can only be satisfied by
some sort of drug.
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