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Chapter 2
SHOCK, SCANDAL, AND SUBVERSION: A DECONSTRUCTIVE ANALYSIS OF
TRANSGRESSION
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Le récit qui révèle les possibilités de la vie
n’appelle pas forcément, mais il appelle un
moment de rage, sans lequel son auteur serait
aveugle a ces possibilités excessives. Je le
crois : seul l’épreuve suffocante, impossible
donne a l’auteur le moyen d’atteindre la
vision lointaine attendue par un lecteur las
des proches limites imposées par les
conventions. 2
George Bataille, Le Bleu du ciel
Un soir, j’ai assis la Beauté sur me genoux. –
Et je L’ai trouvée amère. –Et je l’ai injuriée. 3
Arthur Rimbaud, Une Saison en enfer
The previous chapter outlined the ways in which canonical debates at the dawn of
the twenty-first century revolve around a series of polarized discussions about ideological
values and how transgressive works are evaluated within such theoretical and critical
discourses. Progressively, as these polarizing forces are reevaluated alongside paradigm
shifts in academic and mainstream thought, so is the status of transgressive texts. In
other words, through a series of cultural exchanges and critical negotiations, the cultural
capital of these taboo-breaking texts is reappraised. A quick glimpse at the lists of typical
university curricula will bear witness to the fact that texts that were once perceived to
2 The text which reveals the possibilities of existence is not necessarily compelling, but it calls in a moment
of rage without which the author would be blinded to the possibilities of excess. I believe it: only the
experience which is suffocating, impossible, gives the author the means to reach the distant vision
expected by a reader who is fed up with the limits imposed by convention (Translation mine).
3 One evening I sat Beauty on my lap.—and I found her bitter.—and I insulted her (Translation mine).