[lit-ideas] Wild Pansies (Levi-Strauss on homosexuality)
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:48:58 EST
Is gayness born or bred? Levi-Strauss sheds light on this and other
interesting things --, cfr. wiki:
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In 1962, Lévi-Strauss published what is for many people his most important
work, La Pensée Sauvage. The title is a pun untranslatable in English—in
English the book is known as The Savage Mind, but this title fails to
capture the other possible French meaning of 'Wild _Pansies_
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pansy) '. In French pensée means both 'thought'
and 'pansy,' the
flower, while sauvage means 'wild' as well as 'savage' or 'primitive'. The
book concerns primitive thought, forms of thought we all use. (Lévi-Strauss
suggested the English title be Pansies for Thought, riffing off a speech by
_Ophelia_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophelia_(character)) in _Hamlet_
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet) .) The French edition to this day
retains a flower on the cover.
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JLSperanza, Bordighera
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