Description: Further DetailsTitle: PybracCondition: NewISBN-10: 1939663024EAN: 9781939663023ISBN: 9781939663023Publisher: Wakefield PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 07/17/2014Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 180mmItem Length: 120mmTranslator: Geoffrey LongneckerContributor: Geoffrey Longnecker (Translated by), Toyen (Illustrated by)Genre: FictionTopic: Classic FictionIllustrator: ToyenDescription: A manuscript of obscenely erotic poetry from Pierre Louÿs, written in secret and published after his deathBy turns amusing and offensive, Pierre Louÿs’ Pybrac is possibly the filthiest collection of poetry ever published, and offers a taste of what the Marquis de Sade might have produced if he had ever turned his hand to verse. First published posthumously in 1927, Pybrac was, with The Young Girl’s Handbook of Good Manners, one of the first of Louÿs’ secret erotic manuscripts to see clandestine publication. Composed of 313 rhymed alexandrine quatrains, the majority of them starting with the phrase "I do not like to see…," Pybrac is in form a mockery of sixteenth-century chancellor poet Guy Du Faur, Seigneur de Pibrac, whose moralizing quatrains were common literary fare for young French readers until the nineteenth century. Louÿs spent his life coming up with his own ever-growing collection of rhymed moral precepts (suitable only for adult readers): a dizzying litany describing everything he "disliked" witnessing, from lesbianism, sodomy, incest and prostitution to perversions extreme enough to give even a modern reader pause. With the rest of his erotic manuscripts, the original collection of over 2,000 quatrains was auctioned off and scattered throughout private collections; but like everything erotic, what remains, collected here, conveys an impression of unending absurdity and near-hypnotic obsession.Author: Pierre LouÿsRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Pybrac
Title: Pybrac
ISBN-10: 1939663024
EAN: 9781939663023
ISBN: 9781939663023
Release Date: 07/17/2014
Release Year: 2014
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Translator: Geoffrey Longnecker
Contributor: Toyen (Illustrated by)
Book Title: Pybrac
Number of Pages: 160 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Topic: Erotica / General, Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica, Literary
Publication Year: 2014
Illustrator: Toyen, Yes
Genre: Poetry, Fiction
Item Weight: 7.2 Oz
Item Length: 7 in
Author: Pierre Louÿs
Item Width: 4.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
