Written in a very beautiful style, which is clear elegant and subtle, thus reminding us sometimes of Les Liaisons Dangereuses and of the salon writers in the 18th century , Jealousy explores a universal and timeless disease in a very particular way
Le Nouvel Observateur
Seldom has any writer since Proust written in such a fine, profound and ... Read moreclever way on jealousy
Les Inrockuptibles
Jealousy is a painful, stifling, deeply moving love story. It is not the dark counterpart of The Sexual Life but rather its continuation. With a flamboyant crudeness, a cold cruelty (aimed at herself), with astounding lucidity, Catherine Millet describes this loss of self-balance and the crushing of the body thrust against the walls
Le Monde
Her style, always extremely accurate, explores like an archaeologist the layers of anguish and pain, of consciousness and the unconscious, struggling in order to understand the unbearable feeling of being jealous
Tetu
It is like a conceptual work of art: if the first book was the performance, then the second one is its commentary
Liberation
Jealousy is remarkable. For its distance, its modesty, its style
Lire
a dense, searching and often elegantly written meditation on jealousy; a painstaking audit of Millet's motivations and behaviour at a time of trauma.
Weekend Australian
For anyone interested in the workings of the human heart, this is an essential text
Jane Shilling
Evening Standard
Its spellbindingly fluid prose makes this an absorbing tale.
Yasmin Sulaiman
The List
An honest, brutal piece of confession and self analysis that's also more than a little racy in parts... fascinating
Viv Groskop
The Observer
Millet's prose is still beautiful - swirling and elliptical... She describes the animal pangs of jealousy well
Camilla Long
The Sunday Times
[O]nce the book gets underway this volume... begins to fascinate... Rather romantic... The requirement of a successful sequel is not to simply rehash the first but to move on, both artistically an intellectually. Here Millet...has done just that.
Sarah Vine
The Times
[A] raw counterpart to that first book... Millet succeeds in interweaving psychoanalysis with art, art with sex and sex with writing.
Hannah Gregory
New Statesman
Remarkable... This new book is a generous one. It predates her success, and to a certain extent explains it.
Sheena Joughin
TLS
Though far less scandalous than her first memoir, Jealousy is in many ways a better book. Beautifully translated by Helen Stevenson, shadowed by Proust rather than pornography, it fleshes out an emotional life to confound the bodily one
Lisa Appignanesi
Independent
Books of the year: You may read this book as love's - devastating - answer to the erotic utopia she once relished.
Boyd Tonkin
Independent
A lucid, astute and incredibly accurate analysis of human emotions... a must-read.
Cherie Federico
Aesthetica
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