Underwear/underwriting(Memo)

Moira Redmond “Lingerie, literature's little-seen layer” http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/dec/05/lingerie-literature-underwear-stories


文学における下着(ランジェリー)について。
色々な作品が言及されているのだが、知っているものということで、ニック・ホーンビィの『ハイ・フィデリティ』;


Nick Hornby's Rob lays it out very clearly in High Fidelity: "Women's knickers were a terrible disappointment to me when I embarked on my co-habiting career. I never really recovered from the shock of discovering that women do what we do: they save their best pairs for the nights when they know they are going to sleep with somebody. When you live with a woman, these faded, shrunken tatty M&S scraps suddenly appear on radiators all over the house." (This must surely be the only paragraph from a novel to have inspired a US TV advert for Diet Coke.)
ハイ・フィデリティ (新潮文庫)

ハイ・フィデリティ (新潮文庫)

また、『ライ麦畑』*1ホールデン・コールフィールドも下着批評を行っている;

JD Salinger's Holden Caulfield – always such a charmer – criticises a young woman in Catcher in the Rye for wearing "damn falsies that point all over the place", but this isn't something that comes up in books much, surprisingly. In Candace Bushnell's Sex and the City (the book that preceded the TV series) there's a male character who wants to wear his wife's Merry Widow – an item of underwear named after the Lehar operetta, and consisting of a one-piece bra and bodice, with suspenders attached.
それから、英国『スタイリスト』誌の〈文学におけるランジェリー、ベスト20〉リスト;


http://www.stylist.co.uk/books/lingerie-in-literature