The cellar book series order5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Still, it never seems very likely that he is going to translate these desires into physical passion. He tells us that he has felt some attraction for beautiful young men whom he has not dared to touch: a student at the German university where he studied for a year, and a young soldier who brings him German papers to translate during the phony war. But that's not to say this narrator seems entirely null. It is part of his disengaged character that he has married a woman for whom he feels no desire or even empathy. ![]() This is the first time, the narrator tells us, that he has ever seen her naked body. ![]() She dies naked in bed, her buttocks "spread there limp between loins and thighs, with a sparse but disturbing growth of hair emerging from the anus". Even chillier is the description of the suicide of the narrator's wife, Claude. ![]()
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