In the Absence of Men

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Qu'il est beau ce livre, quelle magnifique histoire d'amour, que de crampes au ventre en lisant ces moments partagés unique, cette poésie unique évoquée par Philippe Besson. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Overall, very good book and I hope more of this author’s work is translated into English in the future.

Like Michael Cunningham’s homage to Virginia Woolf in The Hours and Jean Rhys’s to Charlotte Bronte in The Wide Sargasso Sea, Philippe Besson’s extravagantly praised first novel pays tribute to Marcel Proust.It is here that the book grabs you by the heartstrings and refuses to let go by delivering,first a revaluation about one character that, while obvious given the books setting, is presented in such a skillful way that the heartbreak feels utterly real. Diferentemente a amizade entre esse mesmo adolescente e Marcel Proust está marcada por inúmeros sinais da obra e da vida “proustiana” que me encantaram como leitor.

Because until now, that's the vibe I have been getting whenever I pick up a piece of LGBT literature.But when you have finished reading Lie With Me, I would urge you to dig deeper into Besson and enjoy prose as you rarely find it nowadays. And I don’t know if that is how sixteen year-olds spoke in early 20th century France but damn that was a very indifferent teenager. They enjoy their first-time clumsy exploration but quickly take maximum advantage of Arthur's limited time home. The room is filled with our silence, filled with the sounds of bodies brushing against each other, with the sighs of mingled mouths. One summer, while Paris is empty of men, who have all gone off to war, Vincent happens to meet and strike up a friendship with a renowned author, Marcel.