Sex & The Book / Lesbian love between lust and self-seeking in the verses of Una Chi

In 1994 an erotic novel destined to stand out for its literary quality was published in Italy by the precious publishing house ES, whose title was The bed is a hard battlefield. The author of the work is the mysterious Una Chi, evidently a pseudonym. The writer's true identity would only be revealed the following year: after unleashing a real detective story in the newspapers, she stepped forward, with an interview with Corriere della Sera, Bruna Bianchi, professor of German literature at the University of Milan, as well as a well-known translator: in fact, important translations of authors such as Goethe, Thomas Mann, Günter Grass, Martin Walser are due to her. Born in Milan in 1942, Bianchi wanted to denounce the hypocrisy that gravitates around sex, asserting that in bed everything is allowed and a "raw, obscene language" is even necessary. The success of the debut was followed by three other titles: The sex of angels, I see you better in the dark , The last wish .

Then I sought with my lips the silky thin lips of Max's sex, I placed mine on hers a little sideways, like a Saint Andrew's cross, Max thrown on his back I prone a little sideways between his legs open at double right angles like those of a baby girl, then I slipped my tongue between Max's fins, a little chasing down the moist lumpy cup that I was penetrating, a little going up towards the hard clitoris that bent just under the rotational grind of my tongue everted, while my left hand more or less gently gripped Max's fleshy, protruding pubis and my right hand gained one of the mighty bright pink nipples that towered rigidly from his ribs, squeezing it between the thumb and middle finger and caressing it with the free index finger on the rough upper surface, as I knew I liked it. Max did not deny himself, Max was generous with his orgasm, although not more than one per night, he knew he was doing me a favor, giving me a gift.

The sex of angels tells the story of the tormented relationship between the protagonist - whose name is never revealed - and Massimiliana, known as Max, which takes place during a hot Milanese summer. The first has just left behind (but will it really be over?) Another story, the one with Filippo, a married man who vented all his perversion with her and who, however, decided to break off to return to devoting himself to monogamy. Even Max, for his part, has a distant husband and, as if that weren't enough, a sadistic and violent lover ... feeling, on the meaning of relationships and possession, without reaching any other conclusion than that of the reasons of the flesh that push them, day after day, to perpetuate their journey into the nocturnal kingdom of Eros.

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The scene shown describes one of the first sexual relations between the protagonist and Max. A mutual friend, Fausta, invites the former to the birthday party of the latter, a masked ball, which would have taken place in a disused warehouse on the outskirts of Milan. . The protagonist already knew Max, had always considered her beautiful and had frequently found herself dreaming of her, but had never dared to woo her. But now, after the end of her stormy affair with Filippo, she realized she needed a woman and that woman had to be her. She dresses up as a man because that's how she has felt since she was born and her ex is the one who lends her a masculine suit. She shows up at the party with a mustache, goggles and wig, feeling incredibly seductive. Max recognizes her immediately and yet doesn't pay her much attention, constantly surrounded by other men. Just when she thinks she has no hope left, the birthday girl joins her and asks her to come to her house the next evening. It will be then that their complex and fiery relationship will begin - between a bottle of wine, fears and unspoken desires.

A Chi reproduces, with a harsh and deliberately obscene writing, the vortex of jealousies, anger, loves and perversions that binds the characters to each other, pushes them to the extreme, to orgy and violence, always leaving them empty , always alone and always looking for something and someone. The sexual drive that drives them leads them to implement a continuous play of powers and submission, but - if eros is destined to remain the greatest mystery for us all - experiencing it as "adventurers" will perhaps be the only way to approach it.

by Giuliana Altamura

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