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[[Opera]]'s Second [[Death]] is a passionate exploration of opera - the genre, its masterpieces, and the [[nature]] of death. Using a dazzling array of tools, Slavoj [[Zizek]] and coauthor Mladen [[Dolar]] explore the strange compulsions that overpower characters in [[Mozart]] and [[Wagner]], as well as our own desires to die and to go to the opera. 
  
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|width="100%"| [[Slavoj Žižek|Zizek, Slavoj]]. '''''[[Opera's Second Death]]'''''. [[London]]: Routledge. November 21, 2001, 1st edition, Hardcover, 256 pages, [[Language]]: [[English]], ISBN: 0415930162. <small>Buy it at [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415930162/nosubject-20/ Amazon.com], [http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415930162/nosub07-20/ Amazon.ca], [http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415930162/nosub-21/ Amazon.de], [http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415930162/nosubjencyofl-21/ Amazon.co.uk] or [http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415930162/nosub04-21/ Amazon.fr].</small>
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Žižek, S. and Dolar, M. (2002) Opera's Second Death, London and New
 
York: Routledge.
 
If Hitchcock's films are the most common source of examples in
 
Žižek's books, Wagner's operas probably run them a close second.
 
Picking up on this exemplary obsession and expanding his analysis of
 
it from Tarrying with the Negative, Žižek here devotes half a book to
 
the subject    - the other half being Dolar's discussion of Mozart's operas.
 
What is slightly unusual about this book is the subtle change of emphasis
 
where, instead of using Wagnerian opera as a means to explain Lacanian
 
theory, Žižek is more intent here on using Lacanian theory to explain
 
Wagnerian opera. This perhaps makes the book a more relaxing read
 
than the standard Žižekian work, as the reader is no longer fraught
 
with the expectation that each example will have to bear the weight
 
of a demanding Lacanian theorem.
 

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Books by Slavoj Žižek


Book Cover
Book Description

Opera's Second Death is a passionate exploration of opera - the genre, its masterpieces, and the nature of death. Using a dazzling array of tools, Slavoj Zizek and coauthor Mladen Dolar explore the strange compulsions that overpower characters in Mozart and Wagner, as well as our own desires to die and to go to the opera.

Product Details
Zizek, Slavoj. Opera's Second Death. London: Routledge. November 21, 2001, 1st edition, Hardcover, 256 pages, Language: English, ISBN: 0415930162. Buy it at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.de, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.fr.