Eden

At Maldita, we read.
We will never forget.
We are still recovering.

Published in France in 1970, it saw its sale and advertising banned: Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, were it not for the backdrop of a war-torn Algeria.

A petition signed by names such as Simone de Beauvoir, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Blanchot, Max Ernst, and Italo Calvino implored for its "liberation". It was to no avail. It took 50 years.

In Portuguese, we have to thank DeStrauss.

“[…] In his text, perhaps for the first time, the relationship between the individual and sexuality is clearly and decisively inverted; it is no longer the characters who fade away in favour of elements, structures, and personal pronouns, but sexuality that inverts the individual's situation and ceases to be "subordinate". As he approached this point, he was forced to strip away that which made the Tomb accessible; he had to burst all forms and all bodies, accelerate the entire great machinery of sexuality, and let it repeat itself along the straight line of time. He will have to count, I fear (I was about to say: I hope, but it is too easy when it comes to someone else), on considerable opposition… There will be scandal, but it is about something else entirely.”

Michel Foucault