EDUCATION I from My Life and Loves (Harris) “La Batarde” The Piano Teacher

EDUCATION I

• from My Life and Loves (Harris)• “La Batarde”• The Piano Teacher

Frank Harris (1856-1931)

• Welsh parents• born in Ireland• immigrates to America• returns to Europe • settles in London• mostly remembered forMy Life and Loves

Frank does learning: • he’s action, physical

nice “sword”

Frank does learning: • he’s action, physical• she’s intellect, talk

nice “cigarette”

• vagina = mouth• tongue = penis (?!)• natural v. learning – he is

learning, but repeatedly says “naturally”

• he talks of her “yielding” to him but he is the one yielding

• subtle reversal of power, pleasure, control

• reward is in the future (which he knows about)

Frank does learning part II

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from La BâtardeViolette Leduc (1907-72)

• Leduc is French• abandoned by parents • raised by grandmother• Simone de Beauvoir• The Second Sex

• writes autobiography• Surrealist, poetic• really gorgeous writing

Surrealism (refresher)• founded in Paris between WWI and WWII• focus on the unconscious, dreams, the occult• belief that the conscious mind keeps us from the truth• automatic writing, exquisite corpse game, ouja boards• drugs, séances, altered states of consciousness• juxtaposing ordinary items to make the everyday superreal• the chance meeting of an umbrella and a sewing machine on

an operating table• Salvador Dalí, André Breton, Max Ernst, Giorgio di Chirico, Man

Ray, Paul Eluard, Michel Leiris, &c. &c. • aim is to discover the truth that is hidden from us by

civilization, consciousness, prudery

• this episode is set in a girls’ boarding school

from La BâtardeViolette Leduc (1907-72)

typical boarding school girls

• seasons | temperatures | flowers• topography | rooms | enclosures• temporality | spatiality | waves | light/dark• love and annihilation the earth falls away, time stops• the art of suggestion, hint, delay, evasion• dreamlike | surreal• surreptitious | dangerous | risky• the affective underbelly of education• the erotics of instruction and of the physical in learning• the body, sensuality, arousal, response

• discipline, monitor || indulgence, anonymity• push-pull | attract-repulse | seduce-assault

from La BâtardeViolette Leduc (1907-72)