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'I should have written you after my first reading of The Living Currency; it was already breath-taking and I should have responded. After reading it a few more times, I know it is the best book of our times.' Letter to Pierre Klossowski from Michel Foucault, winter 1970. Living Currency is the first English translation of Klossowski's La monnaie vivante. It offers an analysis of economic production as a mechanism of psychic production of desires and is a key work from this often overlooked but wonderfully creative French thinker.

This collection features thought-provoking essays that explore the intricate connections between language, literature, and the physical experience of embodiment. It delves into how our understanding of language shapes our perceptions of reality and aesthetics, offering fresh insights into the interplay between words and the human experience. Through a critical lens, the essays challenge conventional notions and invite readers to reconsider the role of language in shaping identity and culture.

Exploring the intersection of language and literature, this collection of essays delves into the aesthetics of embodiment, offering thought-provoking insights on how physicality influences literary expression. The author challenges conventional notions, inviting readers to reconsider the relationship between the body and the written word. Through a series of compelling arguments, the essays engage with themes of identity, perception, and the sensory experience of reading, making it a significant contribution to contemporary literary criticism.

Together these two novels comprise the most fascinating, obsessive, and erotic works of contemporary French fiction. Like the works of Georges Bataille, and those of the Marquis de Sade before him, Klossowski's fiction explores the connections between the mind and the body through a lens of sexuality. Both of these novels feature Octave, an elderly cleric; his striking young wife Roberte; and their nephew, Antoine in a series of sexual situations. But Klossowski's books are about theology as well, and this merging of the sexual with the religious makes this book one of the most painstakingly baroque and intellectual novels of our time.

This is a philosophical interpretation of the meaning for Nietzsche of his idea of eternal recurrence, as well as an exploration of Nietzsche's life and his critique of the culture of his times.