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Book cover of "The Fruit of Death" by Jean-Luc Beauchard

The Fruit of Death

By Jean-Luc Beauchard

The Fruit of Death is an homage of sorts to Søren Kierkegaard and to his character-author Johannes Climacus who, as St. John of the Sinai Monastery, left us a book called Climax, that is, The Ladder. Made up of forty fragments which interrogate the oddity and perversity of human desire, this work should also be read as a kind of ladder, a climax that takes a bit longer, not because it ascends higher than the climax of Climacus, but because it begins lower, much lower, in the subterranean regions of the soul.

In this work, a philosopher who has garnered a reputation as one of the most provocative and inventive thinkers of our time tackles the most intimate and yet most mysterious of topics: human sexuality. Original, universal, this work has the uncanny familiarity of the new, the surprising, the unknown.

Sir Richmond Rugg, PhD, author of The Wisdom of Silenus: A Commentary on Plato's Momucles

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