Gamiani, or Two Nights of Excess
"' What a picture ' She shivered, making her breasts quiver, and I realized that this confession, far from horrifying her, was feeding her lust. You'll send the devil back into our flesh.' "
Considered one of the truly great French writers of the nineteenth century, famed poet and novelist Alfred de Musset once decided (as great French writers are wont to do)
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Published
February 6th 2007
by Harper Perennial
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Gamiani is a somewhat Sadean quasi-Gothic erotic novel of the 1830s which has been attributed, although not certainly, to Alfred De Musset and which even reached the hands of Edith Wharton no less.
However, you would not know any of this from my Edition, a second-hand copy of its inclusion in the Erotic Prints Society's 'Scarlet Library' which has no introduction, notes or bibiliography.
What that Edition does have is excellent erotic illustrations by Vania Zouravliov. That...more
However, you would not know any of this from my Edition, a second-hand copy of its inclusion in the Erotic Prints Society's 'Scarlet Library' which has no introduction, notes or bibiliography.
What that Edition does have is excellent erotic illustrations by Vania Zouravliov. That...more
Interesting book. Author supposedly wrote it as an expose of his former lover, George Sand. Written in 1833, it is virulently anti-church.
There are numerous descriptions of extremely sexual, orgiastic events in churches, convents.
There are numerous descriptions of extremely sexual, orgiastic events in churches, convents.
well, this book is a bit much.!!! donkeys,monkeys,nuns,monks,and i had to look up the word priapus. he uses that word a lot. but it was great fun, and totally over the top.
Well-written, erotic, and an astonishingly sympathetic view of lesbian sex. It is difficult to believe this book was written in 1833. To be sure, it keeps close to the more familiar themes of 18th and 19th c. pornography- phallocentrism, sadomasochism, voyeurism, incest. However the author/narrator (writer Alfed de Musset, hidden behind a pseudonym) recognizes the depths and legitimacy of lesbian sex, with its sensuality, passion, and satisfaction.
scandalous but fun.
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Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay[1] (11 December 1810 – 2 May 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist.[1][2] Along with his poetry, he is known for writing La Confession d'un enfant du siècle (The Confession of a Child of the Century, autobiographical) from 1836.[2]
Musset[1] was born on 11 December 1810 in Paris.[2] His family was upper-class but poor and his father worked in v...more
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Musset[1] was born on 11 December 1810 in Paris.[2] His family was upper-class but poor and his father worked in v...more
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