She decided to let him see her, behold her, through all skins.
But then his hands followed his eyes around her body and
The tormenting insecurities that she inherited and internalised,
Manifested themselves like a rotten perfume, an untrue tritone,
And made her cower, hiding herself, undoing her form, erasing her texture
From his grasp, and crying soundlessly, that she let these words sink into her own skin.
And he looked at her, could mildly relate, yet held her as tightly as he could,
And she became so heavy, she carried so much agony around with her,
He had not been familiar with all of it. It bursted out of her and he comprehended
How wrongly she had grown up. How incongruous the idea she was forced to have of
Herself was. He rid her of her inhibitions and let her breathe and holler her suffering
Into the winds. And he saw her real smile and unburied her whole face.
“Lili Darvas Playing Lonti” by József Rippl-Rónai (1861-1927)
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My name is Laura Gentile. I’m of German-Italian descent and I speak five languages such as English, German, French, Italian, Luxembourgish and I’m currently learning Romanian.
I hold a Master of Arts Degree in English Literature, Film and Visual Culture (Dissertation: The Decadent in Love with his Psychopomp: Thomas Mann's 'Death in Venice' and Adrian Lyne's 'Lolita') and a Master of Letters by Research in English Literature, Film and Visual Culture (Thesis: Romanticising Decadence and Aestheticising Death: Women as Projection Bodies and Mimetic Identities in Zola’s 'Thérèse Raquin', Schnitzler’s 'Dream Story', Süskind’s 'Perfume: The Story of a Murderer' and Eugenides’ 'The Virgin Suicides').
My debut novel, 'Within Paravent Walls', will be published by WiDo Publishing / E. L. Marker.
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