读过 These Violent Delights 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕
我实在不知道怎么形容这本书的阅读经历.…好吧其实我知道，它满足了我对toxic relationship的全部设想，两个看起来前途似锦的年轻人，too smart for their own good.围绕着彼此构筑起自以为必须实现的理想偏执地将彼此视为生命中唯一的真实和值得，伟大endgame的计划是多么美啊!为实现崇高梦想实现心灵契合的美妙幻觉，难以长久维系的脆弱平衡，计划实施的时刻即是注定的幻灭，自以为的contra mundum不可挽回地分崩离析，然而最haunting的还是纠缠拉扯执迷不悟，及其这个从一开始就无法避免的尼采式结局
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These Violent Delights
author:
Micah Nemerever
publishing house:
Harper
2020
- 9
When Paul and Julian meet as university freshmen in early 1970s Pittsburgh, they are immediately drawn to one another. A talented artist, Paul is sensitive and agonizingly insecure, incomprehensible to his working-class family, and desolate with grief over his father’s recent death.
Paul sees the wealthy, effortlessly charming Julian as his sole intellectual equal—an ally against the conventional world he finds so suffocating. He idolizes his friend for his magnetic confidence. But as charismatic as he can choose to be, Julian is also volatile and capriciously cruel. And admiration isn’t the same as trust.
As their friendship spirals into an all-consuming intimacy, Paul is desperate to protect their precarious bond, even as it becomes clear that pressures from the outside world are nothing compared with the brutality they are capable of inflicting on one another. Separation is out of the question. But as their orbit compresses and their grip on one another tightens, they are drawn to an act of irrevocable violence that will force the young men to confront a shattering truth at the core of their relationship.
Exquisitely plotted, unfolding with a propulsive ferocity,
is a novel of escalating dread and an excavation of the unsettling depths of human desire.
Paul sees the wealthy, effortlessly charming Julian as his sole intellectual equal—an ally against the conventional world he finds so suffocating. He idolizes his friend for his magnetic confidence. But as charismatic as he can choose to be, Julian is also volatile and capriciously cruel. And admiration isn’t the same as trust.
As their friendship spirals into an all-consuming intimacy, Paul is desperate to protect their precarious bond, even as it becomes clear that pressures from the outside world are nothing compared with the brutality they are capable of inflicting on one another. Separation is out of the question. But as their orbit compresses and their grip on one another tightens, they are drawn to an act of irrevocable violence that will force the young men to confront a shattering truth at the core of their relationship.
Exquisitely plotted, unfolding with a propulsive ferocity,
is a novel of escalating dread and an excavation of the unsettling depths of human desire.