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By exposing the shortcomings of contemporary theoretical debates about love when it comes to analyzing literature, Jaimes takes Octavio Paz as a backdrop for his examination of two of Palou’s novels, Qliphoth (2003) and La profundidad de la piel (2010), through the lens of the “philosophy of love” that Palou advances in his writings. This philosophy of love encompasses an aesthetic quest that incorporates language, love, and eroticism. In the end, the impossibility of love, as portrayed in Palou’s novels, is resolved—according to Jaimes—through textual complexities which search for meaning beyond the body (the material) and the narrative form, as Palou aims to transcend the story of the lovers (and of their corporeality) to present the universality of love.
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Jaimes, H. (2017). Toward a Philosophy of Love: Pedro Ángel Palou’s Qliphoth and La profundidad de la piel . In: Jaimes, H. (eds) The Mexican Crack Writers. Literatures of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62716-8_8
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