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Madame de Sevigne made a significant contribution to the understanding of seventeenth-century France through her voluminous correspondence. The most famous epistoliere of the Splendid Century, the Marquise recorded important political events, religious controversies, wars and disasters, medical practices and the social and cultural life of the court of Louis XIV. She was a keen observer and brilliant writer; her literary style has been admired for over three hundred years.
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C David H Harris
reviewed Madame de Sevigne: A Seventeenth-Century Life on April 22, 2012 Madame de Sevigne: A Seventeenth-Century Life
A gay reference book. As far as I understand, the original title is a reference to Sartre's lecture "Reflections on the Jewish Question".
The book is composed of four main parts:
1) Daily practices and adverse consequences of homophobic insult
2) Contextualizing homophobia concerning the cases of Oscar Wilde and Andre Gide and Marcel Proust (the moderns and their sometimes opposing attempts to formulate homosexuality). This part is very accessible. Some ideas (which I may summarize as "the impossibility of homophobia" since each homophobic disclosure works for the representation and visibility of the homosexuals is mind-blowing)
3) Foucault and how he deals with/suffers from his homosexuality and how he uses his homosexuality as a tool to shape his theory, e.g. focusing on sanity (reason) vs. madness (unreason).
4) Hannah Arendt and using her theory of Jewishness to understand gayness.
I loved the book, although it took months to finish it.
It contains some inspiring insights and lots of historical information.
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