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Žižek, S=====Book Description=====[[Image:OperasSecondDeath. and Dolar, M. (2002) jpg|200px|thumb|Book Cover]]Opera's Second Deathis a passionate exploration of opera - the genre, its masterpieces, London and NewYork: Routledge.If Hitchcock's films are the most common source nature of examples inŽižek's books, Wagner's operas probably run them death. Using a close second.Picking up on this exemplary obsession and expanding his analysis dazzling array ofit from Tarrying with the Negativetools, Žižek here devotes half a book toSlavoj Zizek and coauthor Mladen Dolar explore the subject - the other half being Dolar's discussion of strange compulsions that overpower characters in Mozart's operas.What is slightly unusual about this book is the subtle change of emphasiswhereand Wagner, instead of using Wagnerian opera as a means well as our own desires to explain Lacaniantheory, Žižek is more intent here on using Lacanian theory die and to explainWagnerian opera. This perhaps makes the book a more relaxing readthan the standard Žižekian work, as the reader is no longer fraughtwith the expectation that each example will have go to bear the weightof a demanding Lacanian theoremopera.

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