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Jacques Lucchesi, The Adolescent and Other Erotic Short Stories

Mystery of the feminine and masculine Incarnation

In his short stories, Jacques Lucchesi photographs with words those who hide in an attempt to find a partner in order to calm what is spiraling out of control at the speed of light.
Even if it means packing them up, often willingly but sometimes by force, where it is not only the male gender that becomes the epicenter and unleashed archangel.

Eros, more than love, remains the vehicle for diverse experiences and a series of portraits. It remains the stumbling block upon which the author's imagination crystallizes areas of shadow, slippage, erections, and non-legislative elections. At times, there is something monstrous and untimely.
There are impulsive comings and goings, freedoms to be regained where sometimes an animal libido illustrates another vision of life.

The body emerges as an image beyond the image, an image seeking the meaning of Presence far removed from any angelic effect, and sometimes with constraint or violence, though this is not the rule but a series of exceptions. Psyches sometimes call for scandals they deem radiant, even if this is not always the case, where power dynamics and financial interests constantly play out in various tensions.
For Jacques Lucchesi multiplies the network of the mystery of the feminine and masculine Incarnation. But far from the injunction of Saint Thomas Aquinas: “to call man to spiritual things through the mystery of his body”.

Here, the body breaks free from the spirit, where nevertheless what is femininity and what is Woman, what is masculinity and what is Man can be distinguished in various “exchanges” or “expenditures”.
For the author, imagining is never about restricting but about developing various forms of fever or anguish — without which sexuality is nothing.

Hence the brilliance and the unease of short stories where the hidden is often transmuted into a prelude to the brilliance of those who dispense their “kindness” and of those who become predators without even seeking to seduce within various margins, where the author writes with the eye the desirable or the desired.

Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret

Jacques Lucchesi, The Adolescent and other erotic short stories, Douro editions, coll. La Bleu-Turquin, 2021, 116 p. — €16.00.