In the Absence of Men

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O livro é triste, o sentimento que o anima é exaltante, mas a morte ronda todos de uma forma muito próxima. To find out what personal information we collect and how we use it, please visit our privacy policy. Though an interesting tale of gay love and gay friendship, the form of this book is odd - the middle section is communicated through an exchange of letters that leaves much to be desired in terms of character development and plot. You can feel the tragic pieces in this story prior to them happening, but the heartache still arrives. One of the most interesting literary devices I saw in this novel was the fact that parts of it were written in the second-person narrative.

In the Absence of Men is a novel by Phillippe Besson published originally in French by Éditions Julliard in 2001. Vincent, que já disse umas dez vezes em 50 páginas que tem cabelo preto, olhos verdes e pele de menina, encontra-se com Marcel Proust (30 anos mais velho, nada creepy) à tarde e dorme com o filho da empregada (sim, esse cliché) à noite. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The urgency, dread and gravity of the situation Arthur and Vincent live through in these pages feels real to me.I had this idea that LGBT literature is all about superficial stories about the lives of LGBT people, arguing for acceptance from the straight world.

I ended up hating that book, and so far, I don't have a data point about reading LGBT literature and liking it. Finally, the third part is more of a conclusion, since the climactic point of the book is actually at the end of the second part, and the third part serves as a nice way of tying things together. Sadly, the last of Besson's books translated into English for me to read - and probably my least favorite - although they are all good and worth reading; since it was his debut novel, we'll let him slide a bit! My only regret is that my current language ability does not allow me to read the book in its original French text. In part one, during the summer of 1916, a French teenager named Vincent de l'Etoile experiences an intense love with a soldier named Arthur Vales who is on leave from the French front of World War I.Th incessant thunder of cannon-fire flings bodies into the air, hurls bodies that are crippled, mangled, mutilated into the tracery of the shellfire. In the Absence of Men is a stunning first novel to discover this pride season: in its daring in representation and celebration of gay sexuality, in the beauty of its prose and in its delicacy of feeling. This allows for an epistolary section in which the three characters, via a trialogue, speculate on love and war.

The first novel by Besson, he had to send the manuscript to seven or eight publishers eventually settling on the publisher Julliard.In the Absence of Men is a short, bold and original novel which beautifully captures the romance and amorality of gilded youth. Occasionally, you pick up a book not quite knowing why you chose to read it in the first place, but then gradually, page by page, you start to realize that almost every chapter tells you a little about yourself, about your life. I know that this is pleasure, that there is no guilt, no sense of wrong-doing, not in this moment in which we offer ourselves. Because after reading it, it felt like a whirlwind piece of fiction, and it left me dazed and wondering what just happened.

Frustré par ce dénouement qui, pour moi, n'ajoute rien à la tristesse ressentie par les événements de la deuxième partie du livre, mais qui plutôt retire de la crédibilité à cette histoire pourtant si plausible et émouvante. Besson’s prose is exquisite at conveying the emotions that accompany human desires, longings, fears and failings. Un Marie à bord duquel nous naviguons, sur des mers calmes ou déchainées, à la recherche de rivages paisibles ou accidentés.This book follows a moderately similar format in that it is told in two parts but this time along a liner timeline rather than in two different time periods. In the midst of the terrifying din, in the indescribable panic, we fought side by side, advancing the front line. It is an important work in queer literature, and one that certainly influenced future queer books set in this period of modern history. Philippe Besson admira obviamente Marguerite Duras, e este pastiche LGBT até podia ser interessante se o protagonista não fosse tão irritante e se a situação não fosse tão inverosímil. Maybe that’s the point, maybe it was supposed to reveal Proust’s hunger for youth he was saying goodbye to, his vanity even.