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. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Your immediate instinctive reaction is to touch me, to press against me, to impress your body on mine, to wait for the moment when they are symbiosis, the moment when marriage makes them one flesh. I do not know, I cannot know, if all men are that same, but I have an inkling of the universal softness of the male sex. In the Absence of Men may be, at least to me, the best indictment of both war and class distinctions I have encountered.

It's just that I rarely encounter books of this kind that when I actually read one, I get a little shocked.Sem saber do que se tratava, fiquei positivamente surpreso quando percebi que o Marcel que aparecia como personagem era ninguém menos que Proust - e quando a ficha caiu, o livro ganhou mais e mais camadas de significado. Troublé par les dernières pages ondulées et à l'encre déteinte du livre d'occasion que je tiens entre les mains, sans savoir si elles le sont par la pluie ou par les larmes de celui ou celle qui les a lu avant moi.

Vincent, on the other hand, expressed curiosity and fascination with sex itself and Arthur’s body than the boy himself, only to then suddenly be love-struck out of the blue. And then the pestilential stench reaches us from the field strewn with corpses, the stink of a slaughterhouse mingled with gunpowder.The English translation received positive reviews from several publications including Kirkus Reviews, and the Washington Post. Seeing that his works aroused so much interest, Philippe Besson then decided to dedicate himself exclusively to his writing. par les récits de cette guerre que je n'ai pas connu, par l'intimité des lettres échangées, par le discours de Vincent. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

Un Marie à bord duquel nous naviguons, sur des mers calmes ou déchainées, à la recherche de rivages paisibles ou accidentés.

I don't regret the fact that I strolled into the library looking for some piece of modern French literature (which is why I grabbed a book from the PQ shelves), since I was able to pick up this one. From here, just when you think the book has finished with you, it delivers a truly shocking twist regarding the second character.

forward, crouch, resting on one knee on the ground, stop, aim, perhaps kill someone, set off again, hope that we are not in someone else's sights. He is a two-time winner of the Premio Valle Inclán, for Kamchatka by Marcelo Figueras (2012) and for The Blue Hour by Alonso Cueto (2014). 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. Một cuốn sách đẹp đẽ, rung động, giàu chất thơ và trần đầy nhục cảm, hy vọng sẽ có những cuốn sách khác của Philippe Besson được dịch.In the summer of 1916, the emotionally precocious Vincent, who is the same age as the century, awakens to the possibilities of both erotic and platonic love. I ended up hating that book, and so far, I don't have a data point about reading LGBT literature and liking it. Sau khi đọc "Đừng tự dối mình", tôi bèn tìm những cuốn khác của Philippe Besson đọc và chỉ tìm thấy "In The Absence Of Men" là có bản tiếng Anh. It is the summer of 1916 and, with German Zeppelins on the skyline, the men of Paris are off at war. I realize that Besson's newest novel, Lie With Me, is getting all the press at the moment (partly due to Andre Aciman's correct praise, and Molly Ringwald's translation).