V2nd - chapter 11 - more examples - Bastardized?

[alice wellintown]

I can't quite make out what is menat here by "tragicomic"? I' familiar
enough with th term and I looked it up in a few Handbooks on and off
line, but I can't quite fathom it as a term applied to a novel like
V.. Care to exaplin?

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Seconded but I will add that P in V. is saying he wish it were not so
> true....that he wishes
> V. existed in the culture animately so we could "live' in her presence,,,Yes?
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> I think this is Very true.
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> On 29.11.2010 18:33, Ian Livingston wrote:
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>> mystery of V., you might be tempted to say, is Stencil's Lacanian
>> "other" and Stencil derives his jouissance from his desire for that
>> other. Thus, to solve the mystery would destroy the other and there
>> would be no more joy in life for Stencil. So, even if he finds her, he
>> must continue to search for V.
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