zz哲学家,女权主义者,多角恋爱
Posted: 2009-10-08 16:58
作者:匿名扭捏文艺男青年
看《读书》八月号关于巴黎的文章,提到在圣日耳曼街喝咖啡的萨特和波伏瓦。这两人在普通大众眼里,似乎有摇滚明星的范儿。学术固然是一方面,更多的,其实要归在他们非同寻常的私人关系上。两人早年定了一个契约,是说你我心神契合,不需要婚姻约束。你我只要保持坦白,可以放心大胆进行别的恋爱。这个契约经过了五十多年,一层层的传说美化,加上波伏瓦的女权主义背景,几乎要成为知识分子另类婚恋关系的正面典型。
零五年《纽约客》发了一篇文章揭批两人的八卦,作者是路易斯梅南德老先生。梅老先生认真研读了新出版的一批萨特波伏瓦通信,又好气又好笑地把萨特描述成一个控制狂。”他把他的女人们安排在离他不到十分钟的公寓里,每周都要照例进行‘巡房’。每个女人都被安排了固定的时间与他见面。而那些女人们互相从来不接触,很多时候,她们甚至毫不知情。不过她们都知道波伏瓦,而波伏瓦则是萨特的便宜借口:海狸(指波伏瓦)会不高兴,他得多花些时间陪海狸。“对于拯救出来的”落水女性“,萨特是个神气十足的皇帝。而波伏瓦呢?每次都是她先和女学生约会上床,然后引见给萨特,让萨特来诱惑女学生。波伏瓦自己当面装作不知情,背后却和萨特书信讨论床上的细节:” 我非常热烈地爱着她的身体。”当然,波伏瓦接受采访时从来都否认跟女人上床。
这样的3P是两人的“基础模式”:困惑潦倒的女学生被照顾被收容被诱惑然后被抛弃。如果萨特勾引女学生失败(比如Olga Kosakiewicz),而这女学生恰好有个姐姐(Wanda Kosakiewicz),那么这个姐姐不久也要搀和进来。如果这时波伏瓦还有别的情人,那么接下来就会是一阵眼花缭乱:
Nathalie Sorokine, another student of Beauvoir’s, was also the child of Russian émigrés. She and Beauvoir became sexually involved while Beauvoir was still having her affair with Bienenfeld. (“I’ve a very keen taste for her body,” Beauvoir wrote to Sartre.) Sorokine, too, slept with Sartre and, with Beauvoir’s encouragement, with another lover of Beauvoir’s, Jacques-Laurent Bost. (This is where you start to need a scorecard: Bost was Olga Kosakiewicz’s boyfriend when Beauvoir seduced him; he later married Olga, but continued, in secret, his affair with Beauvoir, who remained Olga’s intimate friend.)
梅老先生最后回到波伏瓦身上。《第二性》里写:
if she is not very intelligent, clear-sighted, or courageous, a man does not hold her responsible: she is the victim, he thinks—and often with reason—of her situation. He dreams of what she might have been, of what she perhaps will be: she can be credited with any possibilities, because she is nothing in particular. This vacancy is what makes the lover weary of her quickly; but it is the source of the mystery, the charm, that seduces him and makes him inclined to feel an easy affection in the first place.
梅老先生分析道,这不正是说萨特嘛?波伏瓦说“非常热烈地爱着她的身体”,不也是说给萨特听?萨特对女性的追求,是强势的,控制性的,完全从肉体出发。“我喜欢漂亮的女人因为这是发展我感知能力的方式⋯⋯”可是反过来,萨特当年五短身材不讲卫生,波伏瓦爱上萨特,爱的完全是他的才华。两人的特殊关系正好反对着她所反对的旧式家庭——这才让她激动兴奋。可是看起来两人的关系并不那么平等:萨特到美国谈恋爱,破了约定要谈婚论嫁,波伏瓦立刻报复似地也到美国谈恋爱,却绝口不提萨特毁约的事。唉,兜了一圈回到原地。不要光看八卦刺激,原来女权主义的师奶级人物,自己也是个受伤的女人。
看《读书》八月号关于巴黎的文章,提到在圣日耳曼街喝咖啡的萨特和波伏瓦。这两人在普通大众眼里,似乎有摇滚明星的范儿。学术固然是一方面,更多的,其实要归在他们非同寻常的私人关系上。两人早年定了一个契约,是说你我心神契合,不需要婚姻约束。你我只要保持坦白,可以放心大胆进行别的恋爱。这个契约经过了五十多年,一层层的传说美化,加上波伏瓦的女权主义背景,几乎要成为知识分子另类婚恋关系的正面典型。
零五年《纽约客》发了一篇文章揭批两人的八卦,作者是路易斯梅南德老先生。梅老先生认真研读了新出版的一批萨特波伏瓦通信,又好气又好笑地把萨特描述成一个控制狂。”他把他的女人们安排在离他不到十分钟的公寓里,每周都要照例进行‘巡房’。每个女人都被安排了固定的时间与他见面。而那些女人们互相从来不接触,很多时候,她们甚至毫不知情。不过她们都知道波伏瓦,而波伏瓦则是萨特的便宜借口:海狸(指波伏瓦)会不高兴,他得多花些时间陪海狸。“对于拯救出来的”落水女性“,萨特是个神气十足的皇帝。而波伏瓦呢?每次都是她先和女学生约会上床,然后引见给萨特,让萨特来诱惑女学生。波伏瓦自己当面装作不知情,背后却和萨特书信讨论床上的细节:” 我非常热烈地爱着她的身体。”当然,波伏瓦接受采访时从来都否认跟女人上床。
这样的3P是两人的“基础模式”:困惑潦倒的女学生被照顾被收容被诱惑然后被抛弃。如果萨特勾引女学生失败(比如Olga Kosakiewicz),而这女学生恰好有个姐姐(Wanda Kosakiewicz),那么这个姐姐不久也要搀和进来。如果这时波伏瓦还有别的情人,那么接下来就会是一阵眼花缭乱:
Nathalie Sorokine, another student of Beauvoir’s, was also the child of Russian émigrés. She and Beauvoir became sexually involved while Beauvoir was still having her affair with Bienenfeld. (“I’ve a very keen taste for her body,” Beauvoir wrote to Sartre.) Sorokine, too, slept with Sartre and, with Beauvoir’s encouragement, with another lover of Beauvoir’s, Jacques-Laurent Bost. (This is where you start to need a scorecard: Bost was Olga Kosakiewicz’s boyfriend when Beauvoir seduced him; he later married Olga, but continued, in secret, his affair with Beauvoir, who remained Olga’s intimate friend.)
梅老先生最后回到波伏瓦身上。《第二性》里写:
if she is not very intelligent, clear-sighted, or courageous, a man does not hold her responsible: she is the victim, he thinks—and often with reason—of her situation. He dreams of what she might have been, of what she perhaps will be: she can be credited with any possibilities, because she is nothing in particular. This vacancy is what makes the lover weary of her quickly; but it is the source of the mystery, the charm, that seduces him and makes him inclined to feel an easy affection in the first place.
梅老先生分析道,这不正是说萨特嘛?波伏瓦说“非常热烈地爱着她的身体”,不也是说给萨特听?萨特对女性的追求,是强势的,控制性的,完全从肉体出发。“我喜欢漂亮的女人因为这是发展我感知能力的方式⋯⋯”可是反过来,萨特当年五短身材不讲卫生,波伏瓦爱上萨特,爱的完全是他的才华。两人的特殊关系正好反对着她所反对的旧式家庭——这才让她激动兴奋。可是看起来两人的关系并不那么平等:萨特到美国谈恋爱,破了约定要谈婚论嫁,波伏瓦立刻报复似地也到美国谈恋爱,却绝口不提萨特毁约的事。唉,兜了一圈回到原地。不要光看八卦刺激,原来女权主义的师奶级人物,自己也是个受伤的女人。