Comments on: No Tomorrow by Vivant Denon

By: nicole

nicole — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:20:44 +0000

Hurray for crowdsourcing! Thanks.

By: jesse wiedinmyer

jesse wiedinmyer — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:20:43 +0000

And just to be clear, I don’t know that. I just knew whom to ask.

By: jesse wiedinmyer

jesse wiedinmyer — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:19:23 +0000

Jean-Honore Fragonard, The Meeting, 1771

By: Litlove

Litlove — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:31:19 +0000

This sounds delightful. The cover is beautiful – I would guess at something by either Watteau or Fragonard, but it is only a guess.

By: nicole

nicole — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:39:56 +0000

Yes, I do believe you would be all over this. I really like the narrator. It’s funny, I didn’t think of this before, but he’s only able to intellectualize things in between the passionate moments. When it comes to the naughty bits (not that naughty), he’s just as wrapped up in describing the kisses that “se multipliaient” as he was in enjoying them…but then when they break off and relocate he is able to step back a bit again.

By: Amateur Reader

Amateur Reader — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:05:50 +0000

For its sunbject, it sounds so intellectualized. Maybe I am reading too much between the lines. But it sounds like a relative of La Nouvelle Heloise.

Nevertheless, a must. Five years before Laclos, however long before de Sade. Obviously an earlier part of a long French literary tradition.