[Critique] “It will be hot tonight. Stories of desire and intimacy”, Yannick Marcoux

His idealism, his ability to celebrate the beauty of the ordinary and his sensitive and passionate gaze on what makes the hearts of humans vibrate in unison make Yannick Marcoux a writer who does good. This gift is once again honored in this collection of short stories on desire and intimacy, whose ambition is to “lubricate our speech”. The one who is also a literary critic at To have to captures in short stories full of tenderness and greed the precise moment — a look, a laugh, a collarbone which is revealed — when the spark is ignited which will unite bodies and souls. Beyond the ephemeral flare-ups hinted at by a budding passion, the author draws eroticism from the power of self-surrender which only reveals itself to the loved one and which is savored one sip at a time. , like everything that takes time to mature. Here, hearts and minds intertwine with the body in a poetic momentum to outline a healthy, liberated and loving future, “like [celui] that we want to give birth to”.

It will be hot tonight. Stories of desire and intimacy

★★★

Yannick Marcoux, XYZ, Montreal, 2023, 128 pages

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