Division of love's labour : Part 2 - Dimanche 21 janvier 2007

Dans son roman "Puff Ball", Fay Weldon parle de la même division du travail en amour/sexualité et cette fois du point de vue masculin. Voici le passage en question, dans sa version originale (Paperback, p. 116-117):

"There were, Richard thought, three kinds of women, and three kinds of associated sex. Liffey's kind, which went with marriage, which was respectful and everyday, and allowed both partners to discuss such things as mortgages and shopping on waking.

Bella's kind, which went with extra-marital sex, and self-disgust, and was anal and oral and infantile, and addictive, and so out of character that nobody said anything on waking if only because the daily self and the nightly self were so divorced.

Miss Martin's kind, which involved seduction : the pleasure of inflicting and receiving emotional pain : in which the sexual act was the culmination not to physical foreplay - for orgasm was in no way its object - but of long, long hours, days, weeks, of emotional manipulation.

It would not be possible, nor indeed desirable, Richard thought, to find these three different women in one body ; he could never satify his needs monogamously. Could any man?"

Les trois femmes de Richard correspondent respectivement aux trois hommes de Lou Schibronsky : Max Schibronsky, le mari, l'autre de la relation respectueuse; TvT, l'amant, son partenaire pour l'exploration sexuelle, et , LO, l'ami, l'expert de la manipulation émotionnelle mutuelle.

Lou Shibronsky n'a jamais lu ni entendu parler de Fay Weldon, soit dit en passant, même pas en traduction française.