Tony Duvert: a political and theoretical overview

Authors

  • Ezio Puglia
  • Irene Peano Univeristy of Lisbon

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13131/2611-657X.whatever.v1i1.12

Keywords:

literature, politics, modern history, mass culture, intergenerational sex, childhood

Abstract

The late French writer Tony Duvert gave voice, scandalously, to the child-lover he never hid he was. He outlined, with rare precision, a desiring subjectivity struggling for existence in a hostile society, which portrayed him as a criminal. The right to homosexuality; the battle against the condemnation and the repression of underage sexuality; the deconstruction of the scary image of the ‘paedophile’, a bugbear typically represented as a rapist ogre; the invective against parents (the actual source of violence and of the castration forces deployed against children) and the institution of the family (the backbone of a morbid and unjust society); the ferocious criticism towards sexual and emotional capitalism, parenthood and the “bourgeois economic scheme of libidinal investment”: those are some of the themes Tony Duvert deals with in his essays, and on which we focus in this paper.

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Published

2018-07-01

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