Azar y psicoanálisis: una interpretación del sueño en Nadie nada nunca de Juan José Saer by François Degrande

“…To prove this, the article analyzes the oneiric world of El Gato (II), in which the freudian principle of condensation turns a bawdy house into a casino. This crucial episode –mise en abyme of the novel– leads us into the allegorization of the dictatorial arbitrary, and enables us to regard Saer’s literary achievement as he instrumentalizes the random and psychoanalytic collusions of interests in semiotic games.…”
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The Shanghai Gesture by Homay King

“…Based on a play by John Colton, the property was greatly sought after by all the major Hollywood studios, and rejected numerous times by the Hays Office for its “sordid” depictions of Shanghai bawdy-houses and casinos. Archival correspondence reveals that Hays and others linked the script’s sordidness to its Asian setting. …”
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