Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-gxg78 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-26T09:06:20.997Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Prevarication over the Sex of Stones: Caillois and Myth (Postscript)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

Anyone who might be surprised to find an issue on the figures of myth and gender appearing under the aegis of the poet of Pierres or Récurrences dérobées can only be referred to his mineral ‘mythology’, where all possible permutations of the sexes have a place, as in a Mendeleyev table. But Roger Caillois’ interest in myths and the notion of gender, which is found in early texts from his youth, crops up unchanged in those from his maturity, such as Le Fleuve Alphée, and the precious, rare fictions, like ‘Récit du délogé’. To sum up in a word his intellectual journey, in the beginning there was stone, at the end stone remained. Within that parenthesis the space of sex and its myths unfolded.

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 52 , Issue 4 , November 2005 , pp. 145 - 149
Copyright
Copyright © ICPHS 2005

References

Andreas-Salomé, Lou (1979) Die Erotik: vier Aufsätze (1910), mit einem Nachwort von Ernst Pfeiffer. München: Matthes und Seitz.Google Scholar
Caillois, Roger (1950) L'Homme et le sacré. Paris: Gallimard.Google Scholar
Caillois, Roger (1970) ‘Récit du délogé’, in Cases d'un échiquier, pp. 308–31. Paris: Gallimard.Google Scholar
Caillois, Roger (1971) Pierres. Paris: Gallimard.Google Scholar
Caillois, Roger (1972) Le Mythe et l'homme (1937). Paris: Gallimard.Google Scholar
Caillois, Roger (1989) L'Aile froide. Saint-Clément: Fata Morgana.Google Scholar
Caillois, Roger (1991a) Le Mythe de la Licorne. Fontfroide-le-Haut: Fata Morgana.Google Scholar
Caillois, Roger (1991b) Les Démons de midi. Fontfroide-le-Haut: Fata Morgana.Google Scholar
Casanova, Giacomo (1999) Lana Caprina. Une controverse médicale sur l'utérus pensant à l'Université de Bologne en 1771–1772, ed. Mangal, P.. Paris: Honoré Champion.Google Scholar
Ladjali, Cécile (2002) ‘Androgynie et hermaphrodite dans le texte décadent’, PhD dissertation, Paris.Google Scholar