/lit/ - Literature

>>11542337
also you have to love anybody capable of writing a plot like this.

>Le Bleu du ciel recounts the story of Troppmann's tortuous relations with three women who in his eyes are "emblematic of certain modes of being": the wildly debauched Dirty (Dorothea), unconcerned with politics and committed to orgiastic excess in all its forms; "simple," tender Xenie, who cares for Troppmann with slightly dull-witted devotion in his moments of moral and bodily collapse; and the austere Lazare, who maintains a cold, rational demeanor and has renounced worldly pleasure in the pursuit of the twin goals of political revolution and spiritual purification. Troppmann is attracted by all these women and the values they represent, yet the women's respective ways of life appear irreconcilable, and Troppmann cannot manage to make a choice. His profound confusion and ambivalence express themselves as hesitation and cynicism on the subject of political engagement and, even more humiliatingly, as sexual impotence with Dirty, the woman he desires most but with whom he is chronically unable to perform sexually.

warrants mentioning that the character of lazare is modeled on weil. a chemistry even more awesome than heidegger-arendt. god for the four of them to have gone on a vacation together and written ghost stories shelley-style. hnng.