(Accouplements : une rubrique où l’Oreille tendue s’amuse à mettre en vis-à-vis deux œuvres, ou plus, d’horizons éloignés.)
Le personnage de la bibliothécaire — on ne sache pas que cela s’applique autant au bibliothécaire — en fait fantasmer plusieurs.
Falla, Jack, Saved. A Novel, New York, Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin’s Press, 2007, ix/276 p.
«With her big black-rimmed glasses and blond hair pulled back and fastened with a clip that looked like a leghold trap, she had the classic librarian look, the one giving rise to the fantasy that — fortyish or not — if you took off those glasses and freed her hair from the leghold trap you just might uncork a sexual Vesuvius quaking on the brink of long-supressed eruption» (p. 68).
Tucker, Les [pseudonyme de Jake Moskovitz], Nympho Librarian, New York, Bee-Line Press, 1970. Couverture de Paul Rader.
