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La Voix Des Etres Aimes

La Voix Des Etres Aimes

Jarry, Isabelle

Paperback

Series: La Bleue

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 2234062373
ISBN13: 9782234062375
Publisher: Stock
Published: May 26 2021
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.47
Language: French

THE VOICE OF LOVED ONES

In early summer, Céleste meets up with Paul whom she has not seen for fifteen years.
He was her philosophy teacher, she was his young mistress for three years.
Paul is very ill. Knowing he will not survive, he asks Céleste to come and spend a few days with him in the country. He also asks her to tell him a love story. Céleste describes an affair she had in Vietnam, some years earlier, with a fisherman named Hoang. As Céleste gradually reveals this romance, Paul actually relives their passionate love affair. In the idle silence of summer days, the two characters are locked together with the ghosts of their past love. The relationship between Céleste and Hoang interweaves with Paul and Céleste's, drawing comparisons and confusing similarities in a play of mirrors in which each tries to find his or her lost connections.
Amid the tension maintained by the pressures of Paul's illness, and aware both how little time they have and how increasingly intimate they have become, the two characters are caught up in the same intense emotions that first brought them together. Seduction, the language of love, dependence, break-ups, physical passion, danger and excess, age differences, cultural divides... these are the themes around which Céleste and Paul revolve, he as a Spinoza-following philosopher, she as a woman exalted by love.

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