“Bangkok”: the adventures of a westerner among prostitutes, bars, massages and excesses

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Bangkok, Lawrence Osborne

Every book can be summarized in 6 paragraphs….

  • Editions Gatopard. Edition 2018
  • Author: Lawrence Osborne
  • Book for interested in: The bangkok of tourists and excesses.
  • What will? Chronicle of a city portrayed from the life and vision of the western tribe.

Paragraph 1

In Thai there is a word, sanuk, which means the duty to enjoy life to the fullest.

Osborne's work focuses on those thousands of tourists and passing inhabitants who go to Bangkok to perform that Sanuk between cheap beer, cheap prostitutes and cheap cuisines in which to sleep. Rarely emerges in something deeper than that bubble, that in any case portrays with irony and acidity.

Paragraph 2

They tell us to satiety that sex and love are two different things that only bind in monogamy, A direct idea extracted from the Middle Ages. It is categorically false. A fast and mysterious tropism makes us always love every woman we fuck. I loved Porntip, but I didn't have to explain it. Even the most disgusting and misogynistic sex tourist is secretly in love with what he is trying to outrage.. love corrodes him, as shown by his red and furious face. And Porntip would only do that for a year, until he graduated and moved on with his life

The book constantly recounts sexual relations, in first and third person, of Westerners who come to Bangkok to find women and men to fuck with at a low cost. It is an agreement between both parties, that is repeated in other places on this planet where there are people who access ‘envote’ with people generally older in exchange for an economic livelihood. It is not especially complicated to stumble with that reality in Bangkok. The problem is that his story rather than portraying a city portrays a group of foreigners who, as in Bangkok they could be in Hanói, Name pen, Bali…

Paragraph 3

I have the impression that nobody understands me. I'm alone. My clients nod, me pagan, They tell me pleasant things. But they don't capture it. What do not capture? Art. They despise him, But they are too bourgeois to admit it

The conversation occurs between Osborne and a Spanish artist, Felix, who understands that his art is not appreciated because he is not understood. The book is always on the side of the Farang trench (foreign), But as soon as he answers those questions with local voices.

Paragraph 4

The city is nothing more than a protocol for this fall. Because Bangkok is where some people take refuge when they feel that nobody can love him anymore, When they surrender

Is Bangkok, Maybe Thailand, A retirement of certain evicted? Can, Because there is a basic rule that the work explains well and that is that everything that is prohibited can be done while it is done with the decorum of not recognizing. That is a magnet for misguided, But Bangkok is also the fate of thousands of foreigners who find in the city a perfect balance between cost and quality of life, And that live outside that bubble of excesses.

Paragraph 5

Cities should be as dirty as possible. Dirt indicates that they are healthy. I don't mean trash, which is something else. We don't want pizza boxes or Big Mac wrappers everywhere.. That's obscene. Not, I mean fruit and rotten food, pig bones and spit. That seems good to me, spit everywhere. I prefer Bangkok to any shitty British city., American or Australian. Do you know what we are? We are the old gossip hiding behind her lace curtain who calls the police when she sees her neighbor having sex at home. How sentimental, Is it? We are mental masturbators without a right hand.

In the work, Osborne collects phrases and conversations with the farang that wander through the city. That Bangkok of street food, from strong odors, even from the rats that come out to eat that waste, It is part of the attraction that the city has for them.. You want what you don't have, strangeness, the problem camouflaged as an adventure is caricatured by those who learned to appreciate chaos… That explains the work from many angles..

Paragraph 6

My lack of scruples disintegrated and I began to see all too clearly what that would look like to an outsider's eye.. Sex depends on the secret, that the only pornographic gaze is one's own. But there were two disguised cops looking at me., and that started to bore me. It wasn't the Eden Club's fault., far from the adorable Bum and Cartoon, but simply sometimes everything changes suddenly and an unknown hand cuts the wings of desire. we turn off. We want air, sunlight, fly.

Osborne's Bangkok is a Bangkok full of stereotypes from Western foreigners. Maybe that does not make it especially interesting, make it something monotonous where the city is explained from the surface. But, There is something that is attractive, which is the portrait of a troop of loser lonely, Vagabundos and Zahoríes de beer, that end there to live a happiness ‘low cost’. After the coconut oil with which they walk on the back, a certain nostalgia is transluded, A cheerful defeat in which they feel more alive than in the conviction of dying old in their boring lives. Between winning, or lose and tie, There are those who prefer the emotion of a overwhelming defeat. That tells this work.




















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