Buenas Noches, Buenos Aires

Gilbert Adair

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• eBook ISBN:
  9780571319794
• Year: 2014

Gideon is a lonely, horny young Englishman who arrives in Paris to take up a teaching post in the local Berlitz, and becomes increasingly fascinated by the intoxicating atmosphere of erotic banter and bragging in the school's all-male and virtually all-gay common room. The moment has surely arrived for him, too, to overcome his own chronic timidity and actually do what he has only ever dared fantasize about. Yet Gideon has a secret - one he is prepared to share with nobody but the reader, a secret he is finally obliged to confront, with surprising results.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Landing Page
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Contents
• The account which I’m about to write
• It was on the second of January, in 1980, that I settled in Paris
• My father is a solicitor by profession
• For the next few years I had three types of sex
• I arrived in Paris, as I said before interrupting myself
• The time has come for me to speak of the Berlitz
• The doyen of the English staff
• If Schuyler was, as I say, the colleague most present in my life
• The third of my Musketeers was an Englishman
• And so we come to Ralph
• Though there was, as you would expect, a high turnover
• Those classes now
• Such were my days
• If there were no such thing as happiness
• When I got back into my room at the Voltaire
• It may be a strange thing to say
• The incident inaugurated a new era
• I wrote earlier of three occasions
• So my life settled into its routine
• It was two weeks later when the subject arose again
• When perceived from a certain angle, living in a city is like living indoors
• Meanwhile, news of the gay cancer was beginning to filter through
• To return to those halcyon, ostensibly halcyon, days
• To return to those halcyon, ostensibly halcyon, days
• Except for the cranky night porter
• But I wrote above that there had been one exception
• To my everlasting shame I forgot all about Ferey’s appointment
• To whoever is reading me
• For me, there was to be one unforeseen consequence
• One night, after a session at the Flore
• After Ferey the second of my gay acquaintances to depart the common room
• And then, another three or four months later
• He left the Berlitz soon after
• The gathering was held inside a disaffected, gasometer-grim atelier
• From that very evening on, I was assailed by the most fantastic of apprehensions
• It was in a bookstore that I met Kim
• This next conquest was Mathias
• It was then that began my systematic exploration
• And there, reader, you have the end of my story
• As for me, all I can do is await the inevitable
• About the Author
• Copyright