"I remembered the moments spent with Ewka.
As I treat her with gentleness. My gestures were just fondling. My hands, my mouth, my tongue gently roamed his skin, as sons of the Virgin floating in the warm air of a calm summer evening. I was looking, without getting tired, for all the sensitive areas of her body, which awake by my grazing, as the sun's rays rekindle the butterfly numbed by the cold wind of the night. What care I put to release in her the desires and shivers which, without me, will be still asleep in their prison! I only wished her own pleasure. "
Jerzy KOSINSKI, The painted bird
This text reminds me of Alex from A Clockwork Orange. Now that makes me intrigued, I just picked up a copy of The Painted Bird in my library.
RépondreSupprimerI hope to reflect more on this text once I finish reading the novel ;)
Good parallel with "a clockwork orange" because "the painted bird" describes very crude violence and was debated. It's clearly a violent book, except this extract and if i pick it, it's because i feel like that, i just want the pleasure, the happiness for others; probably, like several persons said to me, i have the sensibility of a woman. Very strange again that you mention "a clockwork orange" because i've just watched it this evening with a friend, but i can't see why this text of jerzy Kozinski reminds you of Alex...
RépondreSupprimerPs : i can't abide our sociéties softly covert with tolalitarism; and i love the music of Beethoven (mainly sonatas)!
RépondreSupprimerRight, both texts describe graphic violence. You know I'm not sure now how I made that connection, I think it's the language of the excerpt you wrote here that reminds me of Alex (not sure why because the quote you wrote here is rather lovely, whereas Alex is not one to describe such things).
RépondreSupprimerI saw the film for A Clockwork Orange after reading the novel and I felt it gave the book a bad reputation. I sensed a more grim environment in the book, and I was disappointed with the film because it took away a lot of those raw elements.