Monday, March 14, 2011

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Gigolo. Lesbianism in Paris in the sixties.


"For us Garçonne, dressed as a dandy, in tuxedos, wild silks, velvets and satins, a cane, or the famous monocle was not a women's issue, but a philosophy of life, a requirement of our ethics. " Laure Charpentier.

The tunnel vision is very bad depending on what cases. The company, luckily on the issue of sexual definition, is changing and today's taboos about sexual conditions are concerned, are disappearing at short, but firm (still a long way to go in this journey of self body). Homosexuality, both male and female, but more the first than the second (the machismo must be present even in this), is widely accepted as it is, an option to define the status of each individual. A right to freely choose who to love, whether male or female, open borders and boundaries never imagined in the past (at least not openly).
is perhaps for this reason that this novel, the film adaptation of the same name there, it has been issue now and not when it was actually designed back in 1972 when censorship is not allowed to see the light, due to the explicit sex scenes and pages that contain their transgression. We're talking about "Gigolo" of Laure Charpentier, edited in our country for the exquisite Cabaret Voltaire (retail and edits always very neat and attractive to the eye).

The protagonist of the story is Laura a "garçonne" fatal, smart, ruthless, troubled, erratic, cold, arrogant, charismatic, knowledgeable of the Parisian night moving through the neighborhood of Pigalle by Place Blanche and gambling dens homo Boulevard de Clichy , you would like a fish in water. It is left to keep the wealthy women, and prostitutes to satisfy it protects and operates in places where man is forbidden to enter or in which the body is but a way to get money through sex.
Initially, in the 20's, the Garçonne were emancipated and independent women cut their hair to "garçonne" and wore short skirts (like the protagonist of "Die Büchse der Pandora" of Pabst ).
Then in the 30's, the protagonist of this story became known and the women dressed man's suit, with a monocle, always smoking in the company of women very feminine.
Laure Charpentier, architect also of the film adaptation of which is mentioned, is an icon and a symbol for much of the lesbian, and that contributed greatly to its visibility.
good thing about this book, highly recommended, is no longer the central issue, which can move more than one out of sheer morbid curiosity (which would be a mistake because what counts is treated with beauty, even in the toughest moments, and by way of emphatically), but by the vision of the aesthetics of female homosexuality is given, which has little to do with that precast misconception archaic minds, who consider the whole lesbian little less than a man (in terms of physical appearance and behavior). Here the protagonist, like the author to care very much like his appearance, looking glamorous, distinction and personality in everything he wears or complements what you saw. Here in the book, the interesting thing is that, regardless of sexual status who stars, the story, what we live, is a story of people with feelings and emotions. Because, basically, is a book fast, furious, cutting, turning on the possibility of restoring hope and the capacity to love.
And make no mistake, that despite its subject matter, presumably anchor and exclusive, this is a book for everyone and this is possible thanks to the authentic words off Charpentier, words stand as a real song to freedom.

Al censored at the time this post-modern view of homosexual aesthetics, the author, the Reflecting about this in an interview on by Lydia Vázquez Jiménez accompanying text at the end of the book, tells us that "use of force to defend positions, encysted the brutalization, making it fashionable."
Fight between everyone, not and only in this field but life in general, to banish from the minds dull and inquisitorial all traces of brutality that does nothing but impoverish us as human beings.

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