The Way to Paradise: A NovelA New York Times Notable Book |
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... Chazal's engraving and lithography workshop, where her mother had managed to get her hired as an apprentice colorist shortly after she turned sixteen. At least you were able to make use of your talent for drawing. In other circumstances ...
... Chazal the first to call you that?) He was twelve years older than you and his mouth must have watered as he dreamed of the forbidden fruit represented by such a child. Under the pretext of teaching you the trade, he would stand close ...
... Chazal was love, then love was a lie. It was nothing like love in novels, that delicate sentiment, that poetic exaltation, those burning desires. When, in his office at the shop after the other workers had left, André Chazal, not yet ...
... Chazal did to you. You'd had those pains down below since your ill-fated marriage. “Making love,” that tender, delicate ceremony in which the heart, feelings, desires, and instincts all played a role, and in which the two lovers both ...
... true and what was false in the relationship between men and women, to what you wanted and didn't want out of life. What you were—a receptacle for giving pleasure and children to André Chazal—you certainly didn't want to.
Contents
Mysterious Waters | |
The Shadow of Charles Fourier | |
Annah from Java | |
News from Peru | |
Portrait of Aline Gauguin | |
Nevermore | |
Arequipa | |
What Are | |
The Nun Gutiérrez | |
Wrestling with the Angel | |
The Battle of Cangallo | |
The House of Pleasure | |
Words to Change the World | |