{"id":10300,"date":"2013-08-20T10:23:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T14:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/?p=10300"},"modified":"2013-08-19T16:28:40","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T20:28:40","slug":"10300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/20\/10300\/","title":{"rendered":"A Marbled, Iridescent Text"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In Severo Sarduy&#8217;s <em>Cobra<\/em>, the alternation is that of two pleasures <em>in a state of competition;<\/em> the other edge is the other delight: <em>more, more, still more!<\/em> one more word, one more celebration. Language reconstructs itself <em>elsewhere<\/em> under the teeming flux of every kind of linguistic pleasure. Where is this elsewhere? In the paradise of words. <em>Cobra<\/em> is in fact a paradisiac text, utopian (without site), a heterology by plenitude: all the signifiers are here and each scores a bull&#8217;s-eye; the author (the reader) seems to say to them: <em>I love you all<\/em> (words, phrases, sentences, adjectives, discontinuities: pell-mell: signs and mirages of objects which they represent); a kind of Franciscanism invites all words to perch, to flock, to fly off again: a marbled, iridescent text; we are gorged with language, like children who are never refused anything or scolded for anything or, even worse, &#8220;permitted&#8221; anything. <em>Cobra<\/em> is the pledge of continuous jubilation, the moment when by its very excess verbal pleasure chokes and reels into bliss.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&mdash;Roland Barthes, from <a href=\"http:\/\/emberilmu.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/roland-barthes-the-pleasure-of-the-text.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Pleasure of the Text<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Severo Sarduy&#8217;s Cobra, the alternation is that of two pleasures in a state of competition; the other edge is the other delight: more, more, still more! one more word, one more celebration. Language reconstructs itself elsewhere under the teeming flux of every kind of linguistic pleasure. Where is this elsewhere? In the paradise of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1351,99],"class_list":["post-10300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-barthes-2","tag-criticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->