Adele

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When we first meet Adèle, she’s leaving the house before her husband and son wake up, looking for sex on the way to work. It was all the same to me if Richard will finally learn out about her activities or will she escape with her double life. She admits how much she depends upon being a mother and a wife to give her life the gleam of respectability that she needs for herself. Balancing on the verge of exhaustion, she tosses herself from one stranger’s bed to another nightly blow job in some grubby alley, organising her life compulsively around her urge, without however taking pleasure from her acts.

On the other, the self destructive sex was better treated in Nine and a Half Weeks: A Memoir of a Love Affair. However, his fixation on black magic and his unrealistic blame on Malika's mother for their breakup make his character appear delusional, rendering his storyline somewhat vague. When life parts them from each other for eight years, Elias goes back to the same old city to look for her, and Malika has already left town. A quick read but an exhilarating one written in pared back prose: transgressive, subversive, likely to divide readers, and yes, enigmatic and provocative rather than transparent. Even her ever more desperately seeking to feel anything at all, and the larger and larger betraying of everyone who cares for her required to achieve this, including her child and hospitalised husband, didn't make me feel much for her.Despite the affection she feels for her son and her husband, she can’t resist to seize every opportunity she gets – a dinner party with her husband’s colleagues, a visit of an art gallery, an after work drink - to give her body what it ask for. After that she temporarily considered a career as an actress and began to work as a journalist for the magazine Jeune Afrique. I guess you could say it’s sort of making the point that women are objectified but that’s hardly a new idea and very banal. In Adèle, everything is a trap: marriage is dull and oppressive, casual flings are seedy and unfulfilling, being single is such a horrifying prospect that constant misery is preferable, and one's worth as a woman can only be reinforced through male (sexual) approval. Uma mulher que procura o conflito, consigo e com o mundo, que quebra todas as regras para se auto-destruir e procurar, esperando ferramentas que lhe cheguem de fora, uma reconstrução, algo que a parta e a volte a unir de outra forma, una.

Lucy stole her friend Rose’s ‘happily ever after’ because she wanted Rose’s husband and Lucy always gets what she wants.Love triangles are always complex but in Bella’s case things are particularly dangerous as her secret is that she is married to both men in her triangle! Even setting all that stuff aside, though, involves quite an interesting engagement with the text – and you're still left with this intense and surprisingly believable description of a woman stuck in a self-destructive spiral of risky sex and shitty life decisions. But it’s impossible to relax with his wily mother-in-law, and beautiful ex-girlfriend always around. She doesn’t like the burden of caring for her toddler or putting his needs before her own and she and her husband Richard have a disconnected and sexually unsatisfied relationship.