Alexandre Postel, the encyclopedist of orgasm | EUROtoday
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Violette Letendre is a critical and rational editor who works in a publishing home precisely like her. Victor Monegal is an enigmatic writer who despatched him his manuscript: The Auricular Confession. They each discuss to one another, each different chapter, to the rhythm of these despatched by the writer to the editor.
Monegal is a humorous chook, he has a “bat ear”. In life, he goes out at evening to gather what he calls the “harmonics of ecstasy” within the streets and constructing lobbies. Where the writer of Scent collected the scents, he’s a “serial listener”, a “serial listener” of feminine orgasms.
Feminine “jouissance”
He stalks “the noises springing from the flesh coming from further than the flesh”take heed to them – “I annihilate myself in total resonance with the one whose throat emits inarticulate sounds” –, describes them and even develops classes: “I thought I could distinguish twelve of them: The conquerors, The supplicants, The acquiescents, The ghosts, The delivered, The evaporated, The astonished, The unfinished, The talkers, The pretenders, The sorrowful, The laughing. »
All this strange and “uncomfortable” – Monegal agrees. Letendre is embarrassed – so are we. She hesitates. Is she the Patrick Süskind of listening to or an essentialist and misogynistic derangement who reduces ladies to cataleptic growls?
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Answer
Alexandre Postel has enjoyable with it, dives, pushes, ironizes and poetizes splendidly about feminine “jouissance” (with diaeresis please), and particularly about its studying, “this immense mental secretion, this subtle, silky, solitary and silent web”. Subtle, humorous and wildly unique: if we had already – maybe – produced or heard them, we had by no means learn the echoes of want and pleasure so nicely.
“All ears”, by Alexandre Postel (L’Observatoire, 256 p., €22).
https://www.lepoint.fr/livres/alexandre-postel-l-encyclopediste-de-l-orgasme-02-11-2025-2602263_37.php