First volume of the Journal of imposing Travers, these pages were written long ago and were intended to serve as fuel for subsequent writings. Camus published in 2007, I have a bit of luck because I just started reading his newspaper, I can therefore avoid a back that will make readers of Camus. I do not know if this trip back in time they liked.
First I set myself a rule: two days of reading his newspaper a day minimum, which will result in a future match between the release the next volume and its immediate reading. For the moment I make up my behind.
pages above cover the period from March 20, 1976 to August 5 of that year. Several stories interweave
, that of his relationship with W. he continues to want to leave, accusing his lack of attention, his sexual adventures gold Renaud Camus is just as much. The merit of these lines is clear that the intermissions of the heart are complex and very clever who could rule definitively on this strange relationship, all in freedom and servitude. Is superimposed on the other duo antics, which sometimes are confused, frenetic. Adventures Sexual our heroes are common and under the sign of immediacy. Whether in the back rooms in New York or Paris, in gardens and other special places, the sex trade are described in detail. There prevails a blast, a discontinued before AIDS. The urge and desire to be the sole masters, this period seems to be gone, we find in these pages alive, entertaining and compulsive. It also discusses the fate of the writer means to earn a living, drive to a publisher, writer born, he earns little and sometimes must wait to receive unemployment, a few lectures a few Students ...
Discourse on the habits of his contemporaries, the busy restaurants, movies seen, everything is subject to thoughts, descriptions and beautiful way.
Some comments appearing on my card reading (for the curious it is not a document but a school record when I note a few passages in brief):
On sexual freedom prevailing at the time, and it can certainly exists today, but certainly not in the same way, flat on the minds of the HIV virus: "You want to sleep with me tonight, by coincidence?
- No, this week I decided not to sleep with new people. Next week, if you want? On Tuesday, for example? Or not, rather Wednesday: alright with you? "
A proposed definition of homosexuality ... it
this the great utopia itself homosexual , that homosexuality is specific: to end the seduction as work with advocacy to persuade, with the bla-bla-bla ...
This beautiful passage that demonstrates the importance of landscape for Camus
"Always with me the sad feeling of elation is related to the spatial accuracy at the precise description, too evocative of a world that I know that I probably never know, that in any case I will not have known at an age when others have known where he should have been aware. Already the description, one day, by the same Claude, a night on a California beach, around a fire, north of San Francisco, had brought to tears (but at the same time it was a feeling of happiness and certainly something very precious, an excess of desire, a longing without a past, a return of nothing, nothing I ever knew me himself and an evocation innocent, but too suggestive, too successful (because of the talent of the poet, no doubt, his charm ), transformed into memory at once pleasurable and painful).
The principle of the show or the dream of every fan of this type (which I am): (Renaud Camus is a movie) As usual with the public of these commercial films, people, before and behind us, speak out loud from beginning to end without stopping. During the credits it is unnecessary to consider protest as everyone thinks then have the right to make as much noise as they want, but even later, if you ask some silence, it goes crazy. Besides there that Louis II of Bavaria who understood the principle shows. must be available to ourselves (and for two or three trusted friends, if desired) an opera hall, a concert hall, a theater and a cinema - were can at a pinch, to save money, meet these four functions in one building.
Policy Program, already in 1976 ... : I am in favor of civic education and use of the world where you learn how to live in community, to respect the parks, not to throw papers everywhere, not to soil sites, to say hello to his neighbors on the stairs - something that would replace the old democratic bourgeois politeness deceased.
whole dilemma of this journal: to live or note. I late.
