That French people consider l'Amour at the first place in their existence is more than known and that's why all the world is attracted by France and french people: they are reassuring.
Men and women have a great reputation on the field: they are considered big lovers, amatoeurs because in love for love, amour, and the various declinations that we give to it.
The most important component of a brief, long relationship are, for sure, kisses: the most intimate moment in a couple. If you remember, in the movie Pretty Woman, at first, Vivien didn't want to kiss her client for not staying affectively too closed to his soul.
Kissing, so, is the latest thematic of the newest book Petit éloge du baiser
by Jérôme Attal.
Kisses are of every sorta.
Cyrano de Bergerac tried to define the meaning of kiss adding that it is: "Un point rose qu’on met sur l’i du verbe aimer," and again "Un instant d’infini qui fait un bruit d’abeille", and also "Une façon d’un peu se respirer le cœur/Et d’un peu se goûter, au bord des lèvres, l’âme".
Paris is the perfect location for story and kisses, admits Attal: wherever you go, you can kiss a person making happy the City of Love, because its multiformity permits the meeting of many wonderful corners where is possible a romantic moment and an immersion in another...mouth.
Jerome describes his amourous existence: a man who has had a lot of women, his first encounter with love, when still little, was a bit traumatic because at that time his soul was still candid.
Kisses can becomes an addition. Jerome tells that one day, meeting a teenager, he asked her if she had a boyfriend, but she confessed him that she was kissing a lot of boys, without any kind of other serious involvement.
A kiss is sublime, intense and at the same time can be different: wanted, stolen, felt, precious, unique, immaterial but material for the goodness that donates to the body.
The book has a chapter all dedicated to muscles, sensations, feelings, felt by the organism when two people are involved in a kiss-section and also an historic chapter born thanks to a... dinner.
When the pandemic appeared to the horizon, a french website dedicated to the cinema decided, everyday, considering the state of captivity experienced by people in particular in cities where sociality was highly reduced for saving the existence, of posting a picture of a special, famous kiss. It was a way for trying to re-capture the sensation of freedom and what had been before this immense and horrific situation.
But, being french absolutely romantic, Arnauld Miguet posted a picture from his window, adding: "Le seul vrai langage au monde est un baiser," the only true language in this world is a kiss.
Jerome describes kisses as an alchemic moment, so extraordinary that the present and the ordinary existence changes. A magnetic kiss, means the entrance in a labyrinth of emotions.
Reporting to the reader also his multiform adventures and partners with which he shared little or big important moments and a lot of kisses, you will also find poems: he will also tell us the most important kisses in the story of the cinema and TV with a chapter dedicated to Ross and Monica and Rachel of the beloved American TV series Friends.
One of his latest lines in the book says: "Mon premier baiser avec toi, je l’ai tellement attendu,et tu me l’as donné quand je ne m’y attendais pas. Voilà pourquoi c’est un très beau premier baiser", My first kiss with you:I have been waiting this moment and you have donated me a kiss, when I wasn't attending it. Voilà, that's why to me this one is a very beauty first kiss."
Beautiful book.
Highly recommended.
I thank Editions Les Peregrines for the copy of the book.
Anna Maria Polidori
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