« So much for pathos » – « Cueillir des roses au milieu des épines » (Barthes et Sade)

Barthes’s Sade deploys the figure and the fold of desire, from Monty Python to Valéry, from Bringing order to Mallarmé, from Hide the Woman to the “pure sign” of Beauty, from roses to Marty’s girl, and the bliss of the figural body of the other, the neutral of pleasure, and the almost impossible delicacy.