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La moneda viva es un texto que resume, quizás como ningún otro, un pensamiento que muchos autores (especialmente Bataille, pero también el propio Foucault, que lo celebra en una carta al autor como el libro más importante de la época) intuyeron y no se atrevieron a formular, pues ponía en solfa la mayoría de las certezas sobre el deseo y el cuerpo que habían alimentado la literatura y la vida durante siglos. Sade fue el primero en advertir la impostura, pero a Sade había que comprenderlo, había que interpretarlo, había que leerlo concienzudamente y no banalizar su pensamiento, reduciéndolo a una patología de los instintos como ha venido haciéndose desde su descubrimiento. Y eso es lo que hizo Klossowski en este lúcido y penetrante ensayo, como también, en otro sentido, hiciera antes en Sade, mi prójimo.Bataille, Lacan, Baudrillard, Foucault, Deleuze, Lyotard, Agamben, todos ellos y muchos otros reconocieron en La moneda viva la explicitación de lo que constituye

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Made available in English for the very first time by NY based Small Press, Pierre Klossowski's debut novel, The Suspended Vocation, fictionalizes and satirizes the great erotic artist, philosopher, and iconoclast's brief, wartime flirtation with the priesthood, portraying the Church as a haven for conspiracy, idolatry, perversion, and even atheism. Written in the form of a disapproving monograph on an anonymous, confessional novel (itself titled The Suspended Vocation), it is the story of the hapless Jérôme, whose lust for holiness leads him astray in a cloistered world full of ideological and physical temptations. Sometimes a knowing critique of religious fiction, sometimes a wicked self-parody of Klossowski's own lifelong obsessions, and sometimes a sacerdotal spy novel, The Suspended Vocation is one of the strangest and most audacious debuts in twentieth-century literature. Translated by Jeremy M. Davies and Anna Fitzgerald, with an introduction by Brian Evenson.

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Together these two novels comprise the most fascinating, obsessive, and erotic works of contemporary Frech fiction. Like the works of Georges Bataille, and those of the Marquis de Sade before him, Klossowski's fiction explores the connections between the mind and the body through a lens of sexuality. Both of these novels feature Octave, an elderly cleric; his striking young wife Roberte; and their nephew, Antoine in a series of sexual situations. But Klossowski's books are about theology as well, and this merging of the sexual with the religious makes this book one of the most painstakingly baroque and intellectual novels of our time.

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'I should have written you after my first reading of The Living Currency; it was already breath-taking and I should have responded. After reading it a few more times, I know it is the best book of our times.' Letter to Pierre Klossowski from Michel Foucault, winter 1970. Living Currency is the first English translation of Klossowski's La monnaie vivante. It offers an analysis of economic production as a mechanism of psychic production of desires and is a key work from this often overlooked but wonderfully creative French thinker.

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