Word: womens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...love: "It doesn't exist in nature; it's an invention of women...
...chief literary agent in such matters is the fictional character Pierre Costals, an aristocratic writer, libertine and dedicated bachelor whom critics, rather unkindly, assume to be Montherlant's alter ego. "Literary men," Costals caustically observes, "attract crazy women the way a lump of rotten meat collects flies." And Costals is, indeed, a man much beset by marriage-minded females, most of whom begin by writing unsolicited letters to him. One, a peasant girl named Thérèse Pantevin, informs Costals that because of his novels she envisions him as her spiritual savior; when he advises...
These goings-on are cruel and largely preposterous, well calculated to cause ire among women and rouse distaste in anyone who takes them seriously. There is some doubt, though, if Montherlant himself belongs entirely in the latter category. He seems to dislike women. But he also derives considerable amusement from being outrageous in his various literary poses, while needling society with invective. In one of his guises, Montherlant greatly resembles Shaw and his assertion that the sex war is really a standoff skirmish between the Man of Moral Passion and the female Life Force...
...substance, a problem of form inevitable, perhaps, in books put together mainly from letters, excerpts from notebooks, oddments of thought and author's asides. The chief irony of The Girls, though, is that Costals, who keeps asserting that creative man must free himself from the constricting influence of women, ends by falling victim to his own fear and rage. Costals never succumbs to the Hippogriff. But by defining himself so incessantly in relation to women, he becomes, in some peculiar and not very attractive way, very much a ladies...
Police speculate that in both cases the victim was asleep at the time of the murder, and that the killer was well known to the victim. Both women lived alone...