#Philippe Besson

[newvision]

— Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

[storytellinh]

Lie with Me, Philippe Besson

[bookaddict24-7]

The size of a book will never determine (for me) how much it will break my heart. However, Lie With Me is a snack of a book that held enough heart to feed me as if it were a feast.

[fidjiefidjie]

"Des nuages noirs formaient des ombres contre les plis de la falaise. A flanc de colline, le phare surplombait les eaux en désordre, froides et lourdes."

Philippe Besson

Gif Giphy

[tinderheartpaperbody]

Ok jolie couverture qui rappelle celle de A little life et tout, but here's the original :

[mauxpourdesmots]

[telelli-writes]

SPOILERS for lie with me / the charioteer below!!

getting very deeply in my feelings contrasting ralph’s goodbye letter to laurie in the charioteer (which was meant to be read after ralph had completed suicide):

“Just lately I have been happier than I ever had the right to expect, and as one goes round the world one sees that happiness is hard to come by and seldom lasts for long.”

with thomas’ goodbye letter to philippe in lie with me (which philippe read after thomas completed suicide):

“I just wanted to write to tell you that I have been happy during these months together, that I have never been so happy, and that I already know I will never be so happy again.”

thinking about how painful and alienating and deadly it is to be forced to hide oneself and who one loves 💔 the closet kills!

[birthdaysentiment]

the question that imposed itself: why me? he says: because you are not like all the others, because i don't see anyone but you and you don't even realize it...

« LIE WITH ME » BY PHILIPPE BESSON

[samsdei]

Jérémy Gillet & Julien de Saint-Jean

[newvision]

— Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

[alittlefrenchtree]

So I read it today, almost in one go. I've started a couple of dozen pages yesterday but I read most of it this afternoon without really stopping.

It's a short book with an easy writing style to read and it's mostly why I read it in one day. It's funny because I think it's the first time I like a story but didn't really enjoy the book. So between the book and the movie, I'd recommend the movie, because I prefer the story told by the script than the story told by the book.

The main reason why I couldn't enjoy the book as I would have like, is because I didn't like the writing style. It's not bad, it's just the complete opposite of what I like in terms of writing. And even more, it's against about my whole philosophy of what writing should be. That being said, the style is coherent with everything and makes a coherent story that wraps in a coherent way.

I don't prefer the movie because it feels less cruel (even if it does feel less cruel). I prefer the movie because it feels more complete as a story. I imagine the book is closer to what really happen and since reality isn't scripted, there are holes and unfinished things.

I'm still heartbroken tho. Fuck homophobia. Fuck homophobic traditions and societies. Fuck stupid people.

[redsarchive]

“But absence is, first and foremost, silence. A vast, enveloping silence that weighs you down and puts you in a state where any unforeseeable, unidentifiable sound can make you jump.”

— Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

[fidjiefidjie]

"Des nuages noirs formaient des ombres contre les plis de la falaise. A flanc de colline, le phare surplombait les eaux en désordre, froides et lourdes."

Philippe Besson

Gif Lighthouse Cliff/ Kevin Daniel

[princessofmistake]

Che schifezza, l’inferiorità in amore. Intendo dire, prima di tutto: essere dipendente. Elemosinare uno sguardo, un’attenzione, un gesto, anche insignificante. Aspettare con ansia febbrile un appuntamento, un incontro. Rallegrarsi per un’infima manifestazione d’affetto come un barbone sorride al passante che gli getta una moneta nel piattino. Adeguarmi ai suoi capricci, ai suoi impedimenti. Ammettere che i suoi problemi sono sempre i più importanti. Credere alle sue bugie, o alle sue mezze verità. Sottomettermi ai suoi desideri. Accettare i suoi silenzi. Ricordare le sue rare parole, sviscerarne il senso nascosto, ed esserne esaltato o mortificato a posteriori. Sapere che è altrove, lontano, con un’altra, e sentirmi morire.

Intendo però anche dire: essere amati meno di quanto si ama, suscitare minor emozione di quella che si prova per l’altro, minor attesa, minor impazienza, e forse non suscitare nessuna attenzione, piacere quando ci si ritrova, ma non mancare quando si è assenti, essere uno svago mentre si vorrebbe essere una storia. Spesso mi capiterà di pensare: sì, mi ama, probabilmente, ma non abbastanza. E a volte penserò: non mi ama per niente.

[yourneighborhoodbibliophile]

I finished My Policeman and Brokeback Mountain and am already halfway through Arrête avec tes mensonges. Arrête avec tes mensonges evokes memories of my own first love, which was also queer, obsessive, and all-consuming.

[tinderheartpaperbody]