Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux

Author:Annie Ernaux
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2010-07-29T00:00:00+00:00

I couldn’t understand why people looked up the date and the history of each painting in their guidebook. Such things had nothing to do with their own lives. My approach to works of art was purely emotional. I went back to La Badia because it was there that Dante had met Beatrice. The partly erased frescoes in Santa Croce moved me because of my story, which would come to resemble them one day—fading fragments in his memory and in mine.

In museums I saw only the works representing love. I was drawn to statues of naked men. In them I recognized the shape of A’s shoulders, his loins, his penis, and especially the slight hollow following the inner curve of the thigh up to the groin. I was unable to tear myself away from Michelangelo’s David, filled with wonder that a man, and not a woman, had portrayed the beauty of a male body so sublimely. Even if this could be explained by the oppressed condition of women, it seemed to me that something had been irretrievably lost.5

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