In response to the message on the Tiresias, Marcel Jouhandeau, illustrated by Elie Grekoff two beautiful pictures sent to me after the previous message:
I like this image of fatherhood:
Jouhandeau Marcel, born in 1888, left an important novels in the tradition of the great moralists. Homosexuality, central in his life, is only slowly approached, first by allusions in his praise of recklessness (1931), and so more and more clear in of abjection, published anonymously in 1939, reissued in 1951 with its author name. Follow Chronicle of a Passion (1944), The funeral of Adonis (1948) or School boys (1953) and Pure Love (1955), which address homosexuality rather under the angle of passion, that of sexuality as such. With Tiresias, published anonymously in 1954 in an edition of 150 copies, it covers sex between men. That's probably why the text will remain anonymous and he will always be reluctant to acknowledge. One must imagine that in 1954, a published poet, speak openly of sodomy and shared pleasure was still around the unimaginable. Certainly, Jean Genet did in Our Lady of the Flowers and The miracle of the rose , but it was little known beyond a small circle around Cocteau and Sartre.
"It takes me qu'agenouillé, past my legs around his neck. And his face remains exposed above me, downcast eyes, till happiness came over me and grabbed him. Then he opens his eyes wide open, eyes wide color periwinkle, whose affection for that moment is all the more poignant than his mouth cruelly crumples, retracts, much like the oyster still alive when is disturbed in its lair. Afterwards, I only have to look and talk about what this grin that he smiles, but as the animals seem to only recall sleeping in a dream of pleasure. "
"As soon as I'll be ready, he picks me, draws me to him and I start to shake, moaning with fear, begging that I household, it is not rough, too hard, as volatile as watching a vulture or sacrificial knife. Then he gives me sweet names monosyllables salination, which I understand less sense (he speaks a slang to him) that the voluntary kindness or irony, when he does peppers not suddenly of profanity, this time clear, or any threat that chills me with terror. At the same time her hand touched me in the right place, his caresses and soothes me excites me, it surrounds me gradually the size of his massive arms hanging on my hip and suddenly my belt and my crushes. His face disappears, I feel you down my back, looking deep as he visits his home. The passage of his finger, then his tongue, I blossom. Confidence is born. No sooner did I felt his heat installed in me, his face back from the abyss. As it neared each of my vertebrae, one after the other in passing and that's when it bites my neck and I feel his body stretched along the mine, his sensitive nipples over my shoulders, that the square tip of his phallus, beating my ass like me to express his feeling stiff, hesitates again on the threshold and finally slays me. While in the saddle after a long walk to a trot, a kidney shot, I turned around and my legs were spent as a collar around its neck, I can contemplate between his shoulders which I conceal any part, a response Titan's moody swings from the most cruel insult to the coaxing, an expression of pain to bliss, before melting of happiness. His mouth attached to mine, our eyes close at the same time as its sap burning floods me and mine spread between our two hearts debacle greeted with groans endless, as it only happens to beasts that breed in forests. "
The colophon is dated 23 March 1954. According to the BNF, it was printed in Paris by Mr. Sautier.