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Watteau in Venice

Watteau in Venice
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.

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“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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