Eighth century Indian author The Amaruc¸ataka is a collection of one hundred or so detached Sanskrit erotic verses from sometime before the ninth century CE. This terminus ante quem is established by its citation in the ninth-century Dhvanya°loka of A ° nandavardhana, but beyond this we know virtually nothing of its date, provenance, or authorship, …
French Benedictine monk and satirist La nouvelle fabrique des excellents traicts de verite´ [The New Factory of Excellent Traits of Truth] is Philippe d’Alcripe’s only surviving work, probably first published in 1579. Alcripe spared time from his vocation to write this comical set of tall tales numbering ninety-nine (perhaps in deliberate parody of the Decameron …
He lived between 1876–1967, One of the brightest French Poets and Dramatist French poet and dramatist Albert-Birot’s vast, six-volume Les six livres de Grabinoulor is an unpunctuated prose epic that cannot be classified in its entirety as a work of erotic literature, but there are several episodes amongst the many adventures and encounters of its …
Spanish novelist and short story writer La regenta La regenta [The Judge’s or Magistrate’s Wife] is the principal novel by Leopoldo Alas (also known as ‘‘Cları´n’’), himself one of the major authors and critics of late-nineteenth-century Spanish prose. Ana Ozores, the regenta of the title, is a desperately bored and sexually frustrated married woman living …
An anomaly within Spanish-American letters and often misunderstood, Delmira Agustini’s lyric poetry has nevertheless become canonical in Spanish. In universities her erotic poems are taught, and in editions and reviews they are praised by the critics. But her nonerotic works are separated from the erotic ones and only the former are taught in the schools. …
Eroticism in Tunisian literature—indeed, in Maghrebian literature in general—can be traced back to Mouhammad al-Nafzaˆwıˆ in the fifteenth century, around the time of the Tunisian founder of modern sociology, Ibn Khaldun (b. 1332) and of Chaucer in England. Al-Nafzaˆwıˆ’s work is entitled La Prairie parfume´e ou` s’e´battent les plaisirs [The Perfumed Garden], composed between 1410 …
Different ethnicities, religions, and cultures have shaped Algeria since antiquity. This has deeply influenced the interaction between sexes, and as a consequence, writings about them. According to Rachid Boudjedra, ‘‘there are very strong pagan residues’’ in present-day Algeria. The polemic of eroticism versus religion is nothing new: The Berbers rebelled time after time against what …
Most of Kathy Acker’s novels are written in the first person in a style of an abject dis-autobiographical plagiarism. In Kathy Goes to Haiti, for example, she invents an ‘‘I’’ that is a multiplicity of individuals from her life and from literary history and then uses her own ‘‘I’’ to travel through shocking explorations of …
Abu Nuwas is not only one of the most important writers in Arabic literature, but also a major figure in the history of Arabic-language erotic writing. Part of a great flowering of culture in the early Abbasid period (749–945), Abu Nuwas used and built on traditional poetic forms to create an extraordinarily elegant, allusive, and …
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