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The Delights of Turkey, by Jan Wolkers: The Last Tango in Amsterdam

2021-06-19T14:37:35.760Z


THE CHRONICLE OF ERIC NEUHOFF - There are few books where the erotic scenes do not obscure the ridiculous. The Delights of Turkey, which Paul Verhoeven adapted in 1973, is one of them.


What health!

He doesn't stop.

One wonders when Jan Wolkers managed to hold a pen.

Other occupations absorb it, more horizontal.

With Olga, an incendiary redhead, they make love full time.

Unfortunately, the days are only twenty-four hours long.

He was hitchhiking.

She was driving an American car.

Together they have an accident.

It creates links.

They get married.

She leaves him.

Stormy divorce.

The narrator, who is a sculptor, does not get over it, rehashes his memories, masturbates on old photos.

Being sexually obsessed was not forbidden in Amsterdam at the time.

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Verve, frankness, crudity, the prose of Wolkers lashes the blood.

In this clay-smelling workshop, the couple do more somersaults in the middle of the statues.

They adopt animals, including a seagull.

A cat brings back a mouse in its mouth

("It only came out with its tail elegantly curved, so that it looked like Salvador Dali").

They listen to jazz,

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Source: lefigaro

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