Title : Crime of Passion - Ludwig Lewisohn - Book
Summary :
Crime of Passion (1930), which was a considerable success in its time (Antonin Artaud and Bernard Steele translated it in 1932) is undoubtedly his most ambitious novel: a text whose modernity, at least after a good half-century, leaves one speechless. For the first time, in fact, Sex with a capital letter appears as the great troublemaker - that is to say, of truth - in a world where false libertines and true puritans are sent back to back to their mediocre desires: desires magnetized not by the flesh but by the secret taste for power. The rage that inhabits this book is the one that we already feel at work in Mr. Crump: hell is on earth, and first of all behind the tidy facades of family respectability, of good conscience, of love itself. Lewisohn retraces here, with a meticulousness that, as usual, spares us nothing, the destiny of a few trendy New York couples - between the Belle Époque and the Roaring Twenties. One is liberal and yet conformist, emancipated in words but prudish deep down, and one spends one's time lying: to others of course, but first and foremost to oneself. And one is barely surprised when one of these beings betrayed by the spirit of the times, tired of all this pretense, takes a revolver from his pocket and kills. Not to punish adultery, but to allow love to finally speak without a mask
- EAN: 9782859406059
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