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"Catherine Millet's best-selling The Sexual Life of Catherine M. was a landmark book - a portrait of a sexual life lived without boundaries and without a safety net. Described as "eloquent, graphic - and sometimes even poignant" by Newsweek, and as "[perhaps] one of the most erotic books ever written" by Playboy, it drew international attention for its audacity, and the apparently superhuman sangfroid required of Millet and her partner, Jacques Henrie, with whom she had an extremely public and active open relationship." "Millet's follow-up answers the first book's implicit question: how do you avoid jealousy? "I had love at home," Millet explains. "I sought only pleasure in the world outside." "But one day she discovered a letter in their apartment that made clear Jacques was seriously involved with someone else. Jealousy details the crisis provoked by this discovery, and Millet's attempts to reconcile her need for freedom and sexual liberation with the very real heartache that Jacques's infidelity caused." If The Sexual Life of Catherine M. seemed to disregard emotion, Jealousy is its radical complement: the paradoxical confession of a libertine who discovers that love, in any of its forms, can have a dark side.
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Nathan Varner
reviewed Jealousy: The Other Life of Catherine M. on March 06, 2010
Jealousy: The Other Life of Catherine M.
Good lord is this book pretentious. File this one under French sluts who think they're Plato.
The nonchalant sexual libertinism that marked Millet's attitude in her previous book, The Sexual Life of Catherine M., has given way to jealousy in this sequel memoir, in the wake of her discovery of the side amours of her lover, Jacques, with whom she is having a relatively monogamous relationship. She realizes her reactions are hypocritical and complex, and her attempts to sort through and hash out these feelings and their sources make up the contents of the book. Millet is thoughtful and meticulous in the process, probably too much so, and the result becomes wearisome and exhausting very quickly.
The Sexual Life of Catherine M. had a little something for everyone: dirty sex interwoven with thoughtful musings about same. This time we get mostly the philosophy; her rambles are often so long-winded that it's no surprise that she had the stamina to give good blowjobs.
This is one of those books where words like "onanism" and "anodyne" are used repeatedly instead of words like "masturbation" and "soothing." In fact, there should be a drinking game for every time "anodyne" is used in this book; it would make for a welcome anodyne for the painful reading.
To her credit, Millet admits on page 77: "I am not always as acute as my eye is sharp -- as you can see from this book."
Millet continually goes off on analytic rambles and in the course of them I often wondered how she got from point A to point Z. Or, by the time I got to point Z I'd forgotten what the hell point A had been.
Several times she'll write something overanalytically, then repeat it more directly with the preface: "In other words," which makes you wonder why she just didn't go the more direct route to begin with.
I honestly don't think there's enough here for a whole book. Millet beats a dead horse so as to to see what a dead horse looks like at various stages of tenderizing and decay.
So, it's off to find a book better suited to my onanism and anodyne relief.
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