Fuentes, Greenaway and Joyce

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This paper takes a look at 'Aura' by Carlos Fuentes, 'The Pillowbook' by Peter Greenaway and 'Ulysses' by James Joyce. The paper focuses primarily on the sexual narrative used by the writers to illustrate the interaction between the relevant characters.

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"You're my husband..." is a very strange remark coming from this 20-year old woman, but obviously the protagonist is so thrilled by the sex he's just enjoyed, hey, whatever works for her, he is thinking, is cool. Besides, she's invited him to meet her in her room that night, the thought of which is a wonderful magic carpet to ride all day in this otherwise murky environment. He is "emptied of desire," so a reader assumes he has had a climatic ending to the adventure; she was "trembling" and she "surrendered" to him, but it also read like he was surrendering to her, as she joined him under the covers, uninvited by heartily welcomed. They surrendered to one another, and Felipe gets out of bed after being awakened by Aura's knocks, and he is "groaning,"
"So the reader has just been through a very sexy scene, a lovely release from the grim surroundings of Felipe's new job, and now on page 80 there are rats "swarming" around the parched manuscripts Felipe is hired to translate and re-write. The rats are peering at Felipe with "glittering eyes" and there on the bed is Consuelo with a white rabbit. Are readers being set up for another lively, intimate distraction away from the challenge of this haunted palace and the senora? "

Sample of Sources Used:

• Boyle, Robert S.J. "Penelope." James Joyce's Ulysses: Critical Essays. Ed. Clive Hart & DavidHayman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974, 407-427.
• Doctrine Catolica and Catecismo. "Twelve Notables Privileges of Maria Santissima." FrenteUniversitaria Lepanto. Retrieved May 5 from http://www.lepanto.com.br/DCPrivMaria.html.
• Fuentes, Carlos. Aura. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1965.
• Greenaway, Peter. The Pillow Book. Channel Four Films. 1996 - 97. Ewan McGregor, VivianWu. "Things that make the heart beat faster."
• Joyce, James. Ulysses. New York: Random House: 1946.

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