{"id":430,"date":"2012-03-21T23:42:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/?p=430"},"modified":"2012-03-22T00:45:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T23:45:06","slug":"the-childish-language-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/the-childish-language-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"The childish language of love."},"content":{"rendered":"

Editing the text for the dialogues in Bient\u00f4t l’\u00e9t\u00e9<\/em>, I’m struck by how much I adore the self-pitying childishness of the language of love. Of course Duras has a way of playing this up. And maybe I am more sensitive to the charms of feminine naivet\u00e9 -or is it playing at being naive for the sake of self-glorification?<\/p>\n

There’s also a strange sort of joyous humor in the exaggerated expressions of desperate infatuation. Not in the least because of the polite form that Duras often uses to address a lover.<\/p>\n

\nJe vous aime comme il n’est pas possible d’aimer.<\/em>
\n\u2014 I love you like it is not possible to love.<\/p>\n

Avant vous je ne savais rien de la souffrance….<\/em>
\n\u2014 Before you I knew nothing of suffering.<\/p>\n

Rien d’autre arrivera dans ma vie que cet amour pour vous.<\/em>
\n\u2014 Nothing else will happen in my life but this love for you.<\/p>\n

Votre corps va \u00eatre emport\u00e9 loin de moi, et je vais en mourir.<\/em>
\n\u2014 Your body will be taken far from me, and I will die from that.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And then there’s the wonderful playing with cruelty, the purpose of which may be to provoke pain in the lover which will then count as proof of love.<\/p>\n

\nQuand j’\u00e9cris, je ne vous aime plus.<\/em>
\n\u2014 When I’m writing, I don’t love you anymore.<\/p>\n

Je pr\u00e9f\u00e9rais que vous ne m’aimez pas.<\/em>
\n\u2014 I’d prefer you didn’t love me.<\/p>\n

Je crois sinc\u00e8rement que j’aurais pu ne pas vous aimer.<\/em>
\n\u2014 I sincerly believe that I could have not loved you.<\/p>\n

Parfois dans la journ\u00e9e, j’arrive \u00e0 m’imaginer sans vous.<\/em>
\n\u2014 Sometimes during the day, I manage to imagine myself without you.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I hope players will enjoy this sort of language as much as I do. I have no idea if this is supposed to be good or bad writing. I only know I find it incredibly endearing. It makes my heart tremble, brings a tear in my eye and a smile on my lips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editing the text for the dialogues in Bient\u00f4t l’\u00e9t\u00e9, I’m struck by how much I adore the self-pitying childishness of the language of love. Of course Duras has a way of playing this up. And maybe I am more sensitive to the charms of feminine naivet\u00e9 -or is it playing at being naive for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","category-musing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/bientotlete\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}