{"id":165193,"date":"2023-08-18T10:55:58","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T14:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=165193"},"modified":"2023-08-18T10:55:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T14:55:58","slug":"juliana-leite-and-devon-geyelin-recommend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/18\/juliana-leite-and-devon-geyelin-recommend\/","title":{"rendered":"On Friendship: Juliana Leite and Devon Geyelin Recommend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_165198\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-165198\" class=\"size-full wp-image-165198\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/1024px-friendship-bracelet-special-forms.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/1024px-friendship-bracelet-special-forms.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/1024px-friendship-bracelet-special-forms-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/1024px-friendship-bracelet-special-forms-768x616.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-165198\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Friendship bracelets, Ra&#8217;ike, <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/\">CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>, via <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Friendship_Bracelet_special_forms.jpg\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m interested in stories that gently erase the boundaries between love and friendship, featuring characters who shuffle the two feelings in unexpected ways. I like narratives that navigate contradictions and do away with false binaries, illustrating the complexity of what we humans call intimacy. Who is really capable of drawing a hard boundary between feelings? My story in the Summer issue of the <i>Review<\/i>, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7993\/my-good-friend-juliana-leite\">My Good Friend<\/a>,\u201d follows two elderly friends who have shared a lifetime of friendship right in the neighborhood of romance. For these two old folks, friendship is the mountain one climbs to reach a deeper viewpoint on love.<\/p>\n<p>Simone de Beauvoir\u2019s novel <i>The Inseparables<\/i>, about the friendship between two young girls, Sylvie and Andr\u00e9e, is one of the many gems I\u2019ve encountered. Based on de Beauvoir\u2019s own passionate friendship that began in youth, with a girl named Zaza, the book was written five years after she published <i>The Second Sex<\/i>, and it\u2019s clear how the feelings born from that friendship structured her personality and helped to shape even her philosophical interests. &#8220;Nothing so interesting had ever happened to me,\u201d Sylvie says of the first time she met Andr\u00e9e. &#8220;It suddenly seemed as if nothing had ever happened to me at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Young Sylvie wants to express this feeling somehow, to tell her friend about the transformation that has happened inside her. On Andr\u00e9e\u2019s thirteenth birthday, Sylvie carefully and anxiously sews a silk purse by hand as a gift, hoping it will tell her friend something that words can\u2019t quite. Sylvie hands the bag to Andr\u00e9e and, seeing her astonishment, she has the impression that something would have happened between them, maybe a tender kiss, had it not been for the presence of their mothers.<\/p>\n<p>Together they become teenagers, and Andr\u00e9e, the more extroverted of the pair, begins a little romance with a boy against her mother&#8217;s wishes. Sylvie starts to feel jealous before she even knows the name of the feeling. Andr\u00e9e is forced to admit to her mother that, yes, she had kissed the boy, she had kissed him because she loved him. She later tells Sylvie, who is overcome by complete shock: \u201cI lowered my head. Andr\u00e9e was unhappy and the idea of it was unbearable. But her unhappiness was so foreign to me; the kind of love where you kiss had no truth for me.\u201d After a few pages we realize that a kiss is something of a metric of passion for the two young girls, the naive way in which they measure the beginnings of love even as they wrestle with the ambiguity of their own relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Simone and Zaza eventually left home for their studies\u2014literature for Zaza, philosophy for Simone\u2014and they reported life\u2019s many novelties, love stories, and discoveries in careful letters to each other. In one of her letters to Zaza, de Beauvoir wrote, &#8220;Every page is always bliss, happiness in bigger and bigger lettering. And I love you more than ever at this moment, dear past, dear present, my inseparable darling.&#8221; This was the last letter between the two. Zaza died prematurely of an illness, and de Beauvoir would always carry with her the gift of this precious love for a friend. Like a silent river flowing beneath the papers and theories that would influence all Western thinking, there Zaza was with Simone. Zaza and a friendship&#8217;s love.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u2014Juliana Leite, author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7993\/my-good-friend-juliana-leite\">My Good Friend<\/a>\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On a recent drive home from Knoxville to Nashville, I started listening to Sadurn\u2019s album from last year, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Radiator<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It was very exciting because I liked it a lot, and I listened to a lot of Sadurn over the next few months. The band\u2019s main singer and songwriter, g, can make their voice take very casual steps up and down in pitch, like on the song \u201cdirt may,\u201d specifically the version on the EP <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sadurn \/ Ther Split<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The song contains a moment in which g sings the word <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hear<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with at least six syllables, which is one of the most beautiful things I\u2019ve heard, and which is responsible for the many times I\u2019ve listened to it on repeat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the EP\u2019s bandcamp page, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sadurn.bandcamp.com\/album\/sadurn-ther-split\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sadurn \/ Ther Split<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was \u201crecorded on a 50 year old tape machine in a basement in West Philadelphia, Winter Solstice of 2018.\u201d Sadurn shares the EP with a producer and musician named Heather Jones, who sometimes records as Ther. I did not initially like Ther\u2019s songs on the EP. But later on I tried again, and found two things: that two of these songs (\u201cadvil\u201d and \u201capril in paris\u201d) have some of the sweetest lyrics I\u2019ve heard, even if I don\u2019t totally understand them\u2014are they about siblings? childhood friends?\u2014and also, though the songs are attributed only to Ther, g\u2019s voice is in the background, taking those steps that mean so much to me. The unnamed almost-duet feels very personal, very friendly, and again strikingly beautiful, even though at first I found the whole thing grating, maybe unpleasant, and potentially terrible. The internet says their friend Jon Cox was also present on guitar for many of the songs, though I didn\u2019t know to recognize him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All this reminded me of my friend Gwen, who always reads my writing. Recently I sent her something longish, and she sent me a picture of it printed out, most likely from the printer-fax-copier at the office where I used to work and where she still does. Although she might not be formally credited in any final version of the long thing, if there is a final version, she will be very much present within it, the same way she is in many things I have written, as are Anya, Nicole, Oliver, Sophie, and others. I feel like my creative ambitions shifted about two years ago, when I figured out or decided that my greatest artistic joy would most likely always be emailing my writing to people I like a lot, receiving their writing in return, and later talking about our drafts, or at least communicating via Google Docs comments. I like to think that all the people whose art I love are really just messing around with their friends, and sometimes a product emerges later, really like a postmortem on \u201cone time we hung out and did this together,\u201d and likely by now we\u2019re all doing other things.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><b>\u2014Devon Geyelin<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Simone de Beauvoir\u2019s novel The Inseparables and the collaborative EP Sadurn \/ Ther Split. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68386],"tags":[68676,883],"class_list":["post-165193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-reviews-review","tag-issue-244","tag-staff-picks"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 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