Not a Pretty Sight
Jenny Diski: Who Are You Calling Ugly?, 24 January 2008
On Ugliness
edited by Umberto Eco.
Harvill Secker, 455 pp., £30, October 2007,978 1 84655 122 2 Show More
edited by Umberto Eco.
Harvill Secker, 455 pp., £30, October 2007,
“... diabolical and the exotic; excrement; old age; women; Africans; disease; lesbians; Jews; and for Georges Bataille the big toe and the putrefaction of flowers, which he manages to bind to age and misogyny: ‘flowers don’t age honestly like leaves, which lose none of their beauty even after they are dead; flowers wither like simpering, overly made-up ... ”