- The encounter
No one is immune to this sudden conflagration. Like the narrator, a woman remarried, mother of two children, her forties a little tired, a husband who "assures" and she loves. And this guy, not particularly beautiful, that she will meet during a working lunch. Same age, married, father of two children, wife he loves. The only problem is that without wanting to confess, between the dish and the dessert, they will fall down in love.
- Symptoms and Remedy
Looking at the face of the other, they feel at home. By listening to it, life sounds right. In speaking to Him, they are reborn. Then, surpassed her husband who constantly criticizes her, who nevertheless loves her and makes love to her (not very sensually, certainly), and disavowed her loving wife. But, righteousness and loyalty oblige, they pass this moral contract: kisses and some caresses, OK, but without sleeping. It does not prevent them from living a sublime story. Until the sublimate comes up against the repressed.
- But how do they do it?
They do not do. But, the author explains: "When they meet, he sees her as her husband should see her. It is a call of light. They each genuinely and spontaneously tended the appropriate mirror. Every woman is extraordinary if you know how to look at her. Every man, too, for that matter. "And as, in addition, it is full of charm and a quiet strength, it is filled. Listening to her, a sapiosexual strand, "she had wide-eyed eyes before so much intelligence", and it is in itself an intense form of pleasure.
- The kiss
They undress, sometimes, and kiss a lot, long, slowly: "We underestimate the kiss. When he gives himself fully, fully, it is an embrace of souls. It is a body that enters into another, gives it everything, takes everything from it, allows itself to be given and allows itself to be taken. It is to make love, in total way, as in reduced model. "
- So, it's all right ?
Yes. But in fact, no. Because in this form, it will become difficult. "Because even if she agreed at the beginning not to make love," explains Caroline Bongrand, " as a woman she carries within her the infinite, and the infinite is not satisfied with the incomplete. He, too, accepted, out of conjugal fidelity, but because often men, despite their envy, are afraid of this infinite. Or of that unbounded desire to which they are afraid they can not respond. "The end is open, however, knowing that" the passion, without the possibility of love in everyday life, often turns to carnage. "
- The author, in seven lines
Caroline Bongrand is a journalist, screenwriter, bride, mother of two children. She is the author of Pitch , The Child of the Bosphorus and the Invisible Corset (feminist manifesto co-written with Eliette Abécassis). And this last book? "I hesitated a lot before writing a novel of love. I thought it was very snappy. "
