Overview
La pasión amorosa observada con lucidez por una de las autoras francesas más reconocidas de la actualidad.
A partir del mes de septiembre del año pasado, no hice otra cosa que esperar a un hombre: que me llamara y que viniera a verme. Así comienza la historia de la pasión de una mujer culta, inteligente, económicamente independiente, divorciada y con hijos ya mayores, que pierde la cabeza por un diplomático de un país del Este que cultiva su parecido con Alain Delon y siente especial debilidad por la buena ropa y los coches aparatosos.
Si el tema que da lugar a esta novela es aparentemente trivial, no lo es en absoluto la vida que lo alienta. Muy pocas veces antes se había hablado con tan descarnado descaro, por ejemplo, del sexo masculino o del deseo que idiotiza y trastoca. La escritura aséptica y desnuda de Annie Ernaux consigue introducirnos, con la precisión de un entomólogo que observa un insecto, en el febril, extasiado y devastador desvarío que cualquier mujer y cualquier hombre, en cualquier lugar del mundo, ha experimentado sin duda al menos una vez en su vida.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Romantic passion observed with clarity by one of the most acclaimed French authors of our time.
Starting in September of last year, I did nothing but wait for a man: for him to call me and come to see me. This is how the story begins, tracing the passion of a cultured, intelligent, financially independent woman, divorced and with grown children, who loses all restraint over a diplomat from Eastern Europe, a man who cultivates a resemblance to Alain Delon and has a marked fondness for fine clothes and flashy cars.
Although the subject that gives rise to this novel may seem trivial, the life that fuels it is anything but. Rarely has male sexuality or desire that overwhelms and distorts been written about with such stark frankness. Annie Ernaux’s stripped down and clinical prose draws the reader in with the precision of an entomologist observing an insect, plunging us into the feverish, ecstatic, and devastating delirium that any woman and any man, anywhere in the world, has undoubtedly experienced at least once in a lifetime.
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