Jealousy: The Other Life of Catherine M - Softcover

Millet, Catherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846687187 ISBN 13: 9781846687181

Publisher: Serpent's Tale, 2009

Synopsis

After the pleasure comes the pain. The Sexual Life of Catherine M, Catherine Millet's analysis of the many forms and flavours of sexual pleasure, was internationally admired, and not just for its literary qualities. The audacity of a sex life well lived and thoroughly examined left readers wondering how she managed to pull it off while sustaining her relationship with life partner, writer Jacques Henric. 'I had love at home' she explained. 'I sought only pleasure in the world outside'. Then one day she discovered a letter lying about the apartment, from which it became clear that Jacques was involved elsewhere. Jealousy details the crisis provoked by this discovery and her reaction to it. If The Sexual Life of Catherine M seemed to disregard emotion, Jealousy is its radical complement: the paradoxical confession of a libertine, who succumbs to the 'timeless and universal malady'.

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About the Author

Born in 1948 in Bois Colombes, Catherine Millet is a French art critic, curator, and founder and editor of the prestigious magazine Art Press. She is best known as the author of the 2002 memoir The Sexual Life of Catherine M. which was translated into forty languages and sold millions of copies. She lives in Paris with the poet and novelist Jacques Henric.

Review

Written in a very beautiful style, which is clear elegant and subtle, thus reminding us sometimes of Les Liaisons Dangereuses and of the salon writers in the 18th century , Jealousy explores a universal and timeless disease in a very particular way * Le Nouvel Observateur * Seldom has any writer since Proust written in such a fine, profound and clever way on jealousy * Les Inrockuptibles * Jealousy is a painful, stifling, deeply moving love story. It is not the dark counterpart of The Sexual Life but rather its continuation. With a flamboyant crudeness, a cold cruelty (aimed at herself), with astounding lucidity, Catherine Millet describes this loss of self-balance and the crushing of the body thrust against the walls * Le Monde * Her style, always extremely accurate, explores like an archaeologist the layers of anguish and pain, of consciousness and the unconscious, struggling in order to understand the unbearable feeling of being jealous * Tetu * It is like a conceptual work of art: if the first book was the performance, then the second one is its commentary * Liberation * Jealousy is remarkable. For its distance, its modesty, its style * Lire * a dense, searching and often elegantly written meditation on jealousy; a painstaking audit of Millet's motivations and behaviour at a time of trauma. * Weekend Australian * For anyone interested in the workings of the human heart, this is an essential text -- Jane Shilling * Evening Standard * Its spellbindingly fluid prose makes this an absorbing tale. -- Yasmin Sulaiman * The List * An honest, brutal piece of confession and self analysis that's also more than a little racy in parts... fascinating -- Viv Groskop * The Observer * Millet's prose is still beautiful - swirling and elliptical... She describes the animal pangs of jealousy well -- Camilla Long * The Sunday Times * [O]nce the book gets underway this volume... begins to fascinate... Rather romantic... The requirement of a successful sequel is not to simply rehash the first but to move on, both artistically an intellectually. Here Millet...has done just that. -- Sarah Vine * The Times * [A] raw counterpart to that first book... Millet succeeds in interweaving psychoanalysis with art, art with sex and sex with writing. -- Hannah Gregory * New Statesman * Remarkable... This new book is a generous one. It predates her success, and to a certain extent explains it. -- Sheena Joughin * TLS * Though far less scandalous than her first memoir, Jealousy is in many ways a better book. Beautifully translated by Helen Stevenson, shadowed by Proust rather than pornography, it fleshes out an emotional life to confound the bodily one -- Lisa Appignanesi * Independent * Books of the year: You may read this book as love's - devastating - answer to the erotic utopia she once relished. -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent * A lucid, astute and incredibly accurate analysis of human emotions... a must-read. -- Cherie Federico * Aesthetica *

About this edition

• Publisher: Serpent's Tale
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1846687187
• ISBN 13: 9781846687181
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192