Literary theory 2: Structuralism, Deconstruction, and more, hooray!
The Bookening
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What Was He Saying?
Bart's famous essay pulled up. Quote, in his story, Saracene, Balzac, speaking of a castrado, disguises a woman,. He writes this sentence, and then he quotes it. It was woman with her sudden fears, her irrational whims... "It will always be impossible to know" But the thing about deconstruction is that it can only tear down.
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