Sculptural object of desire: eroticism in Michel Leiris’s Aurora
Sculptural object of desire: eroticism in Michel Leiris’s Aurora

Summary/Abstract: the article deals with sculptural metaphors presented in leiris’s Aurora in re-lation to eroticism. aurora is the name of the the surrealist novel’s central fe-male figure, who appears in the stories of all the different male characters. All of the men ‒ the narrator and subsequent characters ‒ are searching for a point of stabilisation of their own subjectivities, which are losing their integrity and cohesion. The phantasm of Aurora, a Medusa‑like woman, is the only entity that guarantees petrification, and therefore can stabilise subjectivity.Eroticism connected to sculptural forms and Aurora’s ability to be at once a petrifying Medusa and an animating force of nature shows the paradoxical condition of the language and the illusory nature of any male charac-ter’s hopes for constructing stable subjectivity.

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