How Did the Critique Receive Catherine Millet’s The Sexual L
When in 1999 Péter Aradi’s interview with Catherine Millet appeared in a very prominent Hungarian literary periodical, Élet és irodalom, she was almost entirely unknown for Hungarian readers. Leading a French-English bilingual art-periodical, as an art historian, Catherine Millet participated on a conference organized by the French Institution in Budapest. Though the basic issue of the meeting was how do various periodicals impress the intellectual mentality, in this interview she speaks with a lot more pleasure about her own periodical, Art Press. Speaking about what kind of art-tendencies does the journal follow with extreme attention, she emphasizes that it is not easy to determine an unambiguous orientation and to find the real art by getting away from the pressure of topicalities at all, because “there are so many things going on in the artistic life of America and Western-Europe, that you simply want to give an account of everything” (Aradi). Not even two years after the appearance of this interview, Catherine Millet becomes world-famous with her book, titled The Sexual Life of Catherine M, and so does she become a part of the topicalities as well. But really, what do we first think about when we notice a new
However, one who starts to read the book in this attitude will surely be disappointed, just like the one who puts it into the category of “foolish novels of dull ladies” (Pécsi). The reader who is really interested in The Sexual Life of Catherine M. will probably be dissatisfied because “there is absolutely nothing in it of what you might expected with this title”. For instance, “her first kisses are not being recalled, but there is nothing about the first real touches she felt neither” (Károlyi 25.). This is the reason why a lot of people puts it away disillusioned: they are supposed to read narratives that are full of these descriptions. But for those, who represent the other aspect, the source of confusion will perhaps be that the writer ranks all her stories among chapters like the quantity, the space or the wrinkled space, trying to put its tone into philosophical heights. Though “placing the adventures among these clumsy, affected chapter titles might represent some kind of will for correct composing and this means we can comprehend it as a not quite good experiment to make it a literary work” (Károlyi 25.)
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