![]() ![]() It is suggestive and charged, sexy for how it captures the thrilling ache of desire, the fleeting but seemingly endless moments before you finally get what you want. You can read the scene below, followed by more from Greer about what he appreciates. It is a masterfully patient section and one with all the qualities Greer aspires to create when writing sex scenes. The tension arises out of small gestures fraught with enormous feelings - how Odette bends her neck, how Swann touches her cheek - and his realization that, after this, he will never know an Odette he has not kissed. They are finally united in a cab, moments before their first time having sex. Here, Swann has been searching everywhere for his mistress, Odette. ![]() ![]() It’s no surprise, then, that Greer selected a passage from Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way as the best sex scene he has ever read - even though no sex occurs in it. ![]() He is compelled by the held hands, the sly glances, the brushed shoulders, and the revelation of learning that somebody wants you as much as you want them. For Greer, the quiet, charged moments just before the act itself make great sex writing great. Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photo by PublisherĪndrew Sean Greer let me in on a secret about the protagonist of his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, Less : Arthur Less is having a lot of sex throughout the book, though readers may not be aware of it. ![]()
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