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Watteau in Venice

Name: Watteau in Venice
Author: Philippe Sollers

Philippe Sollers

Watteau in Venice is a novel by French author Philippe Sollers published in 1991 by Editions Gallimard, later translated into English by Alberto Manguel, and then published in 1994 by Charles Scribner's Sons.

“Stop being astounded by the realization that sex is the object of such misunderstanding and of such automatic clumsiness that it implies either a universal loathing or a universal veneration”

Philippe Sollers book Watteau in Venice

which are much the same thing
Watteau in Venice (1994), tr. by Alberto Manguel of La Fête à Venise (1991)

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