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BANNED IN FRANCE
Charles Baudelaire’s decadent erotic poems caused a scandal when they first appeared in 1857. Both author and publisher were prosecuted for unveiling works that were “an insult to public decency,” and...
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Watch Out! — Here Comes Jean-Fucque!
A Born-Again Surrealist Classic Inspired by Louis Aragon’s obscure surrealist text, this new adaptation by R J Dent proudly presents… [insert drumroll] the one and only, Jean-Fucque Le Cocque, a...
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LOVE IS IN THE AIR
Originally published in 1894 under the title Les Chansons de Bilitis, this provocative collection of poetry was purportedly translated from the Ancient Greek but was, in fact, the product of the...
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MIND YOUR MANNERS
Pierre Louÿs wrote this scandalous and salacious satirical work in 1917, yet it wasn’t published until 1926, after his death. Originally titled Manuel de civilité pour les petites filles à l’usage des...
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MAD SCATTER
Forthcoming Titles: Let’s Not Hit Each OtherAlphonse AllaisHer Three DaughtersPierre Louÿs Capital of PainPaul Éluard Night Dreams: A Poem for Two Voices and a Secret PianoCéline Arnauld
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ALL IN THE FAMILY . . .
“Louÿs’s jolly saga of sexual insatiability…is one of the handful of erotic works that achieve true literary status.” — Susan Sontag “Among all Pierre Louÿs’s books, this is undoubtedly my favourite,...
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A RAUNCHY SUMMER FANTASY FROM FRANCE
A FISH FROM ELSEWHERE Eléa follows a strange fish and is thrown into a provocative realm of unabashed sexual gratification. Faced with evading the grip of the law, escaping the intoxicating clutches...
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Watch Out! — Here Comes Jean-Fucque!
A Born-Again Surrealist Classic Inspired by Louis Aragon’s obscure surrealist text, this new adaptation by R J Dent proudly presents… [insert drumroll] the one and only, Jean-Fucque Le Cocque, a...
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Room Service…
Pihla, a beautiful journalist from Helsinki, is on an assignment to cover subterranean sex scenes across Europe. Although detached from the decadence she witnesses, Pihla needs a respite, and checks...
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Raunchy Wordplay
This scandalous little work appeared in France under the title “Letter to La Présidente.” Théophile Gautier (1811-1872) was a novelist and poet, one of the champions of Romanticism. In 1850, he and...
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