The Passion of Mademoiselle S.
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A literary treasure: the recently discovered letters that chronicle the passionate affair of a young woman in Paris in 1928
While helping a friend clear out an old apartment in Paris, diplomat Jean-Yves Berthault came upon a leather portfolio that contained a collection of handwritten letters. After reading the first one, Berthault realized that he had stumbled upon an extraordinary correspondence—a charged and passionate epistolary love affair that brought to mind the French classics The Story of O, Justine, and Delta of Venus. He began to piece together clues. The letters were from Simone, a well-to-do, unmarried Parisian woman, to her younger, married lover, Charles. Written between 1928 and 1930, they tell the story of an illicit love affair that sparked a sexual awakening for both lovers. As the affair intensifies, Simone becomes obsessed with Charles, even as he begins to grow more distant. As her hunger deepens, she pushes him beyond all boundaries into dangerous and forbidden realms, in an effort to keep him enthralled. With each broken taboo, Charles submits—until their last fateful encounter.
The Passion of Mademoiselle S. is a tour de force. In language that is by turns elegant, impassioned, and surprisingly graphic, these love letters are a portrait of a sexual and psychological obsession. Berthault’s notes on the period add dimension and context to the correspondence. But it is the voice of Simone—that of a sensual, vulnerable, and curiously modern woman—that comes through most vibrantly and echoes down the centuries.
Praise for The Passion of Mademoiselle S.
“The steamiest . . . text ever.”—Le Parisien
While helping a friend clear out an old apartment in Paris, diplomat Jean-Yves Berthault came upon a leather portfolio that contained a collection of handwritten letters. After reading the first one, Berthault realized that he had stumbled upon an extraordinary correspondence—a charged and passionate epistolary love affair that brought to mind the French classics The Story of O, Justine, and Delta of Venus. He began to piece together clues. The letters were from Simone, a well-to-do, unmarried Parisian woman, to her younger, married lover, Charles. Written between 1928 and 1930, they tell the story of an illicit love affair that sparked a sexual awakening for both lovers. As the affair intensifies, Simone becomes obsessed with Charles, even as he begins to grow more distant. As her hunger deepens, she pushes him beyond all boundaries into dangerous and forbidden realms, in an effort to keep him enthralled. With each broken taboo, Charles submits—until their last fateful encounter.
The Passion of Mademoiselle S. is a tour de force. In language that is by turns elegant, impassioned, and surprisingly graphic, these love letters are a portrait of a sexual and psychological obsession. Berthault’s notes on the period add dimension and context to the correspondence. But it is the voice of Simone—that of a sensual, vulnerable, and curiously modern woman—that comes through most vibrantly and echoes down the centuries.
Praise for The Passion of Mademoiselle S.
“The steamiest . . . text ever.”—Le Parisien
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The Passion of Mademoiselle S. is a tour de force. In language that is by turns elegant, impassioned, and surprisingly graphic, these love letters are a portrait of a sexual and psychological obsession. Berthault’s notes on the period add dimension and context to the correspondence. But it is the voice of Simone—that of a sensual, vulnerable, and curiously modern woman—that comes through most vibrantly and echoes down the centuries.
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Steamy sex in 1920s Paris. When Berthault, the former French ambassador to Brunei, found a cache of love letters in a friend's cellar, he became so fascinated that he bought them. This selection, lightly annotated, represents about a third of the "salacious" correspondence, written from 1928 to 1930, of Simone to her married lover, Charles, "something to be read," Berthault suggests, "with the avid curiosity that an anachronistic pornographic novel might arouse." Pornographic they are, and tediously repetitive as well, as Simone recounts the thrusting, licking, throbbing, and quivering of their lovemaking and tantalizes Charles with "the perverse ministrations" that she will offer at their next tryst. In the first months of the affair, they engage in oral and anal sex, and she delights in his beating her until she is raw and bleeding. "Do you know, you have so thoroughly whipped these buttocks you love," she exults, that they are "one huge bruise." She promises that one day, he will tie her wrists and ankles to the bedposts "and whip me furiously," a prospect she thinks he ardently desires. Anticipating his desires becomes her way of proving her all-consuming love. "Did I not tell you I was your slave?" she asks. Hardly a sexually liberated woman, Simone reveals herself to be needy, neurotic, and hysterical, desperately afraid that Charles will leave her. "She would have made an ideal patient for Dr. Freud," the editor comments. About six months into the affair, Simone decides that Charles secretly longs for a homosexual relationship, given his "taste for sodomy." Charles, she says, will become her "mistress" and Simone the "man." She even offers him a male lover, who, Berthault speculates, may have hastened the end of the affair. After two years, Charles was weary of his wild mistress. A sad history of a woman consumed by passion and despair.COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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