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The Written Unknown IX: Silence After the Feast | Petronius, the Satyricon, Literary Refusal, Fragmentation & the Failure of Meaning
What if a broken book doesn't need to be repaired?
What if literary fragmentation isn't merely damage, but part of the experience through which a text continues to disturb its readers?
Why does Petronius’ Satyricon remain so difficult to classify?
And what happens when the rituals, educational forms, moral language, literary genres, and cultural symbols of a society continue functioning after the authority behind them has begun to disappear?
In The Written Unknown IX, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey enters one of the strangest territories in his body of work through Silence After the Feast: Petronius and…
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