/lit/ - Literature

>>19073843
The Lover by Marguerite Duras >:D

>>18936252
The Lover

>Hélène Lagonelle’s body is heavy, innocent still, her skin’s as soft as that of certain fruits, you almost can’t grasp her, she’s almost illusory, it’s too much. She makes you want to kill her, she conjures up a marvelous dream of putting her to death with your own hands. Those flour-white shapes, she bears them unknowingly, and offers them for hands to knead, for lips to eat, without holding them back, without any knowledge of them and without any knowledge of their fabulous power. I’d like to eat Hélène Lagonelle’s breasts as he eats mine in the room in the Chinese town where I go every night to increase my knowledge of God. I’d like to devour and be devoured by those flour-white breasts of hers.
I am worn out with desire for Hélène Lagonelle.
>I am worn out with desire.
>I want to take Hélène Lagonelle with me to where every evening, my eyes shut, I have imparted to me the pleasure that makes you cry out. I’d like to give Hélène Lagonelle to the man who does that to me, so he may do it in turn to her. I want it to happen in my presence, I want her to do it as I wish, I want her to give herself where I give myself. It’s via Hélène Lagonelle’s body, through it, that the ultimate pleasure would pass from him to me.
>A pleasure unto death.

>>18152666
Marguerite Duras, the Lover or La Doleur. She is very good, not too difficult to understand, and - I think - can be very engaging at that age.
Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar can also be a rather good one. Go for stuff by female authors, anon. Christa Wolf's Cassandra is another book I enjoyed, or almost anything by Marguerite Yourcenar, especially Memoirs of Hadrian.