De Franse schrijver Florian Zeller werd op 28 juni 1979 in Parijs geboren. Zie ook alle tags voor Florian Zeller op dit blog.
Uit: Climax (Vertaald door William Rodarmor)
“The story starts where all stories should end; in bed. Nicolas had been living with Pauline for two years, so this wasn’t the first time that they found themselves like this: facing each other, she giving him an ambiguous smile as she took his hand. These were gestures he knew by heart, gestures that populate the territory of reassuring and familiar things. He stepped closer and kissed her.
He’d always thought of sex as a metaphysical moment, a few seconds during which every man could take revenge on life. What revenge? Like everybody, Nicolas was going to die someday, and that day was inexorably approaching. Besides, he was thirty years old and hadn’t become what he had dreamed of being–a well-known director. His chances of success were getting slimmer and slimmer, and he was often overcome by self-loathing and shame. Sex was a consolation for all that.
On this day, however, something unprecedented happened to them. Nicolas was lying on his back and Pauline, who had just taken off her bra, had closed her eyes a little, the way she usually did when pleasure began to gently blot out the world.
Suddenly the bedspread lifted up and a third person’s head appeared.
With a dramatic gesture, Sofia sent the bedspread flying behind her. She was naked, and took Nicolas’s penis in her left hand while she tried to get rid of a hair she seemed to have on her tongue with her right. (But what was she doing under the bedspread?) In a moon-slow movement, like the outgoing tide, Pauline eased herself down level with Sofia; Nicolas closed his eyes.”
Florian Zeller (Parijs, 28 juni 1979)