What That girl had the idea to dress as a man to mingle with the male life in surprising secrets, know how men behave when they are out of reach of the eyes and ears of their wives or mistresses, to know what to expect before giving his heart was probably already a fairly shocking. But Gautier advantage of this scheme to put his characters in situations of ambiguous experience feelings of same sex, what was more shocking. His Theodore, under which disguise Madeleine de Maupin is indeed courted by women but loved by a man who does not know right away, even if eventually guessed, she is a woman.
The form of the novel, largely epistolary, gave each of the protagonists leisure to pour out from their respective confidants their feelings and sensations. Gautier incidentally goes far enough in describing the love scenes, whether teasing sometimes used in court, sometimes on premises, or fanciful staging devised by the lovers to spice up their lovemaking. When you look at the same time, how Dumas employs cautious paraphrasing or ellipsis as complete as soon as we enter a little too far into the intimacy of love relationships, and how he even apologizes to his reader that his words can leave hidden imagine, we consider quite although freedom of Gautier, who goes to libertinism, was to lift the heart of self-righteous.
In our time with unbridled morals, this is not what is shocking, but rather the place of women in society, the men assigned to it, and how even those who claim to be poets more refined, repeating at will their aspiration a passionate love and shared them as objects on which they have rights of ownership. But Mademoiselle de Maupin knows overcome this claim to domination of men women and she will have the last word, both in the romantic love, in the wisdom of knowledge of the human soul and in freedom itself. It probably also had displeased the book's release, but makes reading a delightful woman of today. If
metaphysical digressions letter writers, especially Albert, were often too long and somewhat boring, the questions and the torments of love are of every age, and resonate with what no doubt many of us have, more or less experienced, looking for a soulmate. Nobody knows, however, probably deploy as a whole vocabulary Gautier precious and metaphors to describe the beauty, especially women, to which he is obviously very sensitive. There is no doubt influenced by the neoclassical school of his time, which challenged the antiquity up to date, whether of art, architecture ... or political principles, the new republics attention paid to that of Rome. Testimonies art from antiquity suggest that aesthetics was a primary value, and the theory of Gautier is that it overrides everything else in terms of feeling love. Romanticize a little short perhaps, but nevertheless developed a certain charm.
As for me, as I loved that, contrary to all probability, make Gautier relive the days of Pompeii Titus one night, the subterfuge devised by Mademoiselle de Maupin to slip into the skin a man pleased me as much: I have long dreamed of myself to slip under observation in a male body and a brain to understand what is common and separate between man and woman.
As usual, Rene Depasse delivers a masterful reading, offered on audio.com Literature, which supports the text, and can overcome even the passages sometimes a little breadsticks states of mind of Albert , we sometimes want to slap it out themselves.
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