The Picture of Dorian Gray : la passion du réel/la passion du semblant

Slavoj Zizek has recently argued that the 20th century is characterized by the « passion for the real, » which is an exact inversion of the passion for semblances : beneath our modern passion for virtual reality there lurks a longing for « the experience of the real world of material decay ». The Pi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Annie Ramel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2006-12-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cve/12521