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6. Jordan Castro's The Novelist, Georges Bataille, and the Triumph of Fecality
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Episode 6: Jordan Castro's The Novelist, Georges Bataille, and the Triumph of Fecality
Today we discuss Jordan Castro’s divisive prose debut, paying particular attention to its unprecedented 22-page exposition of a single bowel movement: how it gives form to Bataille’s symbol of the ‘Solar Anus,’ and how this development perturbs and reshapes the contemporary canon.
We then draw parallels between the excretion of the fecal stick and the breech emergence of a newborn, and propose the genesis of certain novels…
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