{"id":90474,"date":"2015-10-02T09:32:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T13:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=90474"},"modified":"2015-10-02T10:49:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T14:49:54","slug":"bring-home-a-little-piece-of-obscenity-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/02\/bring-home-a-little-piece-of-obscenity-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring Home a Little Piece of Obscenity, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_90475\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ar00226_10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90475\" class=\"wp-image-90475\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ar00226_10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ar00226_10.jpg 647w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ar00226_10-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-90475\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Detail from Robert Mapplethorpe\u2019s <i>Self Portrait<\/i>, 1983.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>If you\u2019ve got an extra $250k\u2013$350k lying around, you could own a part of obscenity history\u2014a print of Robert Mapplethorpe\u2019s electrifying photograph <em>Man in Polyester Suit<\/em> is up for auction. That\u2019s the one, you\u2019ll recall, that features \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/10\/02\/arts\/design\/mapplethorpe-print-at-center-of-culture-wars-returns-to-public-eye.html\" target=\"_blank\">a tightly cropped picture of the torso of a black man wearing a three-piece suit, with his large penis hanging out, like a Montgomery Ward catalog hacked by Tom of Finland, with an assist from Duchamp and Groucho Marx<\/a>.\u201d Twenty-five years ago, Mapplethorpe\u2019s photography unleashed a righteous fury; Jesse Helms and other congressional fuddy-duddies called it obscene and wrote a bunch of angry letters to people. To own <em>Man in Polyester Suit<\/em> is to give the middle finger to such types, always and forever. I\u2019m sorry I can\u2019t afford it myself. But if someone were to wish to buy it for me as a gift \u2026<\/li>\n<li>Elizabeth Bishop met Clarice Lispector in 1962, and immediately set about trying to help the Brazilian writer to break out in America. But there was some kind of a hiccup, and things between them cooled: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/article\/251142\" target=\"_blank\">It is notably odd that Lispector was not more interested in Bishop\u2019s offer to foster relationships with American publishers<\/a>; she had struggled to get the elite presses of Brazil to take on her books and would struggle to make money after separating from her husband \u2026 Bishop personally negotiated the relationships and letters of interests with these editors, but it seems that she never realized or acknowledged that the power she wielded, often with an air of superiority, was precisely what was offensive \u2026 The last time Bishop writes about Lispector to Lowell, she says, \u2018She\u2019s hopeless, really.\u2019\u2009\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Whither e-reading? A few years ago, e-books were poised to take over the world\u2014but reading on a screen has failed to live up to its promise, and e-books are just \u2026 kind of boring, especially on the much-vaunted Kindle. \u201cAmazon has built seamless, efficient plumbing for digital books. But after a book has made its way through the plumbing and onto the devices, <a href=\"http:\/\/aeon.co\/magazine\/technology\/why-have-digital-books-stopped-evolving\/\" target=\"_blank\">the once-fresh experience now feels neglected<\/a> \u2026 I\u2019ve found that it\u2019s much more effortless to dip back into my physical library\u2014for inspiration or reference\u2014than my digital library. The books are there. They\u2019re obvious. They welcome me back.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>If Nietzsche gave a commencement speech\u2014I know, thank God he\u2019s dead, and won\u2019t\u2014he might draw from a part of his <em>Untimely Meditations<\/em>, devoted to Schopenhauer as an educator, but littered with weird nuggets of quasi-self-help: \u201cThere is no drearier, sorrier creature in nature than the man who has evaded his own genius and who squints now towards the right, now towards the left, now backwards, now in any direction whatever \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2015\/09\/30\/nietzsche-find-yourself-schopenhauer-as-educator\/\" target=\"_blank\">No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life<\/a>. There may be countless trails and bridges and demigods who would gladly carry you across; but only at the price of pawning and forgoing yourself. There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don\u2019t ask, walk!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>In John Keene\u2019s collection <em>Counternarratives<\/em>, \u201cevery available form of literary irony\u2014every possible way of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/literature-as-map-to-liberty\/\" target=\"_blank\">forcing stubborn words to mean more than they pretend<\/a>\u2014\u00adseems to be working at once.\u201d Keene (\u201cblack, gay, raised in St. Louis, enamored with language, tormented by it\u201d) is intent on using silence and absence in his fiction; his stories are full of missing texts. \u201cThis time, they are the reader\u2019s assumptions and expectations, the dominant narratives\u2014historical and political as well as strictly literary\u2014with which we conjure the world and reproduce it, exclusions and erasures intact.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve got an extra $250k\u2013$350k lying around, you could own a part of obscenity history\u2014a print of Robert Mapplethorpe\u2019s electrifying photograph Man in Polyester Suit is up for auction. 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