why isn't he read or brought up frequently even in french circles? he is the sexpilled author par excellence.. wouldn't you like to give his cyclical nouvelle "Les Jeunes Filles" a go, anon?
I don’t think anyone would even remember him today if Beauvoir didn’t seethe about him in the Second Sex
>>24798954she dubbed it the Nietzschean strain of misogyny or something along those lines (I think). that he not only wants woman to be a lesser-than but he wants her méprisable. Montherlant is solid prose when read in its original language. Plot-wise it's very much like Dostoevsky in the sense that things don't really stop happening. Events, répliques, problems, scandals and passions. You can also self-insert with the protag. >https://youtu.be/jLi7WDx1mRM?si=latB4DTbihzxw6c5His own words: "..[Les Jeunes Filles] is a veritable comedy..made up of gags à la charlo (Chaplin).."
>>24799002His misogyny did actually just stem from his intense homosexuality tho, unlike Mishima’s
>>24799021i actually had no idea he was a fagWhat do you think informs Mishima's misogyny ?
