SOURCE: Holbrook, Susan. “Delirium and Desire in Nicole Brossard's Le Désert mauve/Mauve Desert.” Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 12, no. 2 (summer 2001): 70-85.

In the following essay, Holbrook explores the suggestive relationships among reading, writing, translation, interpretation, and desire illustrated in Brossard's novel Mauve Desert.

“le ravissement” dit L. pour saisir                                                                                                                         le sens d'une expérience mentale où                                                   fragments et delire de l'éclat traduisent une pratique                                                                                           de l'émeute en soi comme une théorie de la réalité … … … … … … JE N'ARRÊTE PAS DE LIRE 

(Brossard, Amantes 11)

“the rapture” said L. to grasp the sense of a mental experience where                                         fragments and delirium from the explosion translate and                                                                       experiment on riot within the self as a theory of reality … … … … … … I DON'T STOP READING/DELIRING 

(Godard, Lovhers 16)

Hurtling home on the C-train, Calgary's rapid transit car, I read Nicole Brossard's Amantes. Actually, I am reading Barbara...