Peter Preston Brooks (born 1938 )：彼得·布魯克斯認為，「創作 WORK 代表人類身體如何轉化為語言和意義這一複雜且往往充滿張力的交匯點，正如這篇德古意特·布里爾出版社的評論中所探討的那樣。這項工作的根本在於探討精神的物質「他者」如何轉化為敘事中的「我」。」指的是敘事、藝術和精神分析領域為「書寫」身體所做的努力——將身體納入語言，使其成為意義的載體。本書探討了文學和藝術如何將身體呈現為慾望的對象，揭示死亡和身份的真相。： Peter Brook: Body Work: Objects of Desire in Modern Narrative (1993). 每章可獨立成一本書《身體的創造：現代敘事中的慾望對象》中國有翻譯本 書名 《身體活》 對身體的認知慾望是各種形式敘事中一股強大的動力。彼得布魯克斯認為，現代敘事旨在揭示身體，從而展現一種必須以肉身書寫的真理。本書廣泛涉獵文學和繪畫，布魯克斯闡述了想像力如何努力將身體融入語言，並以身體為主題進行敘事。 從盧梭、巴爾扎克、瑪麗雪萊和福樓拜，到喬治艾略特、左拉、亨利詹姆斯和瑪格麗特杜拉斯，從馬奈和高更到梅普爾索普，作家和藝術家們都對身體——這個精神中不可逃避的他者——抱有濃厚的興趣。布魯克斯對精神分析的深刻理解，使他得以闡述「求知欲」（即求知的渴望）如何引導虛構情節及其對讀者的解讀。
Body Work: Objects of Desire in Modern Narrative
Peter Brooks
Harvard University Press, 1993 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 325 pages
The desire to know the body is a powerful dynamic of storytelling in all its forms. Peter Brooks argues that modern narrative is intent on uncovering the body in order to expose a truth that must be written in the flesh. In a book that ranges widely through literature and painting, Brooks shows how the imagination strives to bring the body into language and to write stories on the body.
From Rousseau, Balzac, Mary Shelley, and Flaubert, to George Eliot, Zola, Henry James, and Marguerite Duras, from Manet and Gauguin to Mapplethorpe, writers and artists have returned in fascination to the body, the inescapable other of the spirit. Brooks's deep understanding of psychoanalysis informs his demonstration of how the "epistemophilic urge"--the desire to know-guides fictional plots and our reading of them.
It is the sexual body that furnishes the building blocks of symbolization, eventually of language itself-which then takes us away from the body. Yet mind and language need to recover the body, as an other realm that is primary to their very definition. Brooks shows how and why the female body has become the field upon which the aspirations, anxieties, and contradictions of a whole society are played out. And he suggests how writers and artists have found in the woman's body the dynamic principle of their storytelling, its motor force.
This major book entertains and teaches: Brooks presumes no special knowledge on the part of his readers. His account proceeds chronologically from Rousseau in the eighteenth century forward to contemporary artists and writers. Body Work gives us a set of analytical tools and ideas-primarily from psychoanalysis, narrative and film studies, and feminist theory-that enable us to read modern narrative afresh.
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