'I am sixteen. I am as old as the century' It is 1916. Vincent is sixteen, on the brink of manhood. Vincent is aristocratic and privileged, frequenting the salons of Paris while France is at war and the city almost deserted of men. In that brutal summer, Vincent's beauty and precocity captivate two men: Marcel, some thirty years his senior, a writer and celebrated socialite; an...
'I am sixteen. I am as old as the century' It is 1916. Vincent is sixteen, on the brink of manhood. Vincent is aristocratic and privileged, frequenting the salons of Paris while France is at war and the city almost deserted of men. In that brutal summer, Vincent's beauty and precocity captivate two men: Marcel, some thirty years his senior, a writer and celebrated socialite; and Arthur, the twenty-one year old son of one of the servants, who is now a soldier at the front. Both relationships become love affairs of a kind - of the mind or of the body. Vincent intuitively tries to keep his passions separate, but over the weeks of indolent Parisian summer and far-off war, confidences are made, absences endured, secrets revealed. All of these men will suffer, and Vincent will lose the last vestiges of his childhood innocence. In the Absence of Men is a stunning first novel: in its daring in representing Marcel Proust as a character, in the beauty of its prose and in its delicacy of feeling. It is a quite remarkable debut.
0 有用 antidote 2020-09-24 13:08:16
第二本besson。还是更喜欢lie with me
0 有用 forastera 2023-10-14 07:55:57 英国
可能是出于我对非主流性取向人群的偏心,Besson的文字,他字里行间透露出的细节与情感,深刻的打动了我。特别是在这样的时期,讲述战争的痛苦与虚伪,讲述爱,反而有种血淋淋的真实感。而且结构很有创意,第二部分用了我很喜欢的书信。不过我真是非常不喜欢Marcel以及莫名其妙的结局。。后来才发现原来Marcel是以Marcel Proust为原型,瞬间悟了。
0 有用 Amoranova 2023-10-13 03:48:53 英国
感觉很难评,确实有“实验性”,但感觉也只是流于表面。情节过于烂俗,是那种看的时候会担心作者这样写,结果就真这样写了的让人感觉无话可说的烂俗 🫠
0 有用 撒哈拉的巴黎人 2020-06-14 08:50:30
法国人的16岁 果然不一样。好看,买它!
1 有用 Anica 2023-01-11 18:50:42 澳大利亚
法式疼痛文学,但感觉作者是懂德勒兹的
0 有用 forastera 2023-10-14 07:55:57 英国
可能是出于我对非主流性取向人群的偏心,Besson的文字,他字里行间透露出的细节与情感,深刻的打动了我。特别是在这样的时期,讲述战争的痛苦与虚伪,讲述爱,反而有种血淋淋的真实感。而且结构很有创意,第二部分用了我很喜欢的书信。不过我真是非常不喜欢Marcel以及莫名其妙的结局。。后来才发现原来Marcel是以Marcel Proust为原型,瞬间悟了。
0 有用 Amoranova 2023-10-13 03:48:53 英国
感觉很难评,确实有“实验性”,但感觉也只是流于表面。情节过于烂俗,是那种看的时候会担心作者这样写,结果就真这样写了的让人感觉无话可说的烂俗 🫠
1 有用 Anica 2023-01-11 18:50:42 澳大利亚
法式疼痛文学,但感觉作者是懂德勒兹的
0 有用 antidote 2020-09-24 13:08:16
第二本besson。还是更喜欢lie with me
0 有用 撒哈拉的巴黎人 2020-06-14 08:50:30
法国人的16岁 果然不一样。好看,买它!