The Walter Benjamin essay subtitled "the last snapshot of the European Intelligentsia" is a critique of this novel. "Boulevard Magenta, outside the Sphinx Hotel" and "The Humanite Bookshop" are among the photographs by  Jacques-Andre Boffard that appear in this work, along with an anonymous photograph of a bronzed glove. The title character's name is taken from a patient who suffered from body dysmorphic disorder and had gone to see the psychoanalyst Pierre Janet, a man who had treated the autho
The Walter Benjamin essay subtitled "the last snapshot of the European Intelligentsia" is a critique of this novel. "Boulevard Magenta, outside the Sphinx Hotel" and "The Humanite Bookshop" are among the photographs by  Jacques-Andre Boffard that appear in this work, along with an anonymous photograph of a bronzed glove. The title character's name is taken from a patient who suffered from body dysmorphic disorder and had gone to see the psychoanalyst Pierre Janet, a man who had treated the author's friend Raymond Roussel. The main character is literally the author himself, and he mentions his previous works like Les pas perdu and his friends Louis Aragon and Andre Derain, as he embarks on a 10-day liaison with the title mysterious woman. FTP, name this surrealist novel by Andre Breton.
The Walter Benjamin essay subtitled "the last snapshot of the European Intelligentsia
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