Monday, October 29, 2012

“Plaisir D'Amour: An Erotic Memoir of Paris in the 1920s” by Anne-Marie Villefranche

This book was pretty much in the nude once I started reading it. It gradually followed a memoir that had many mini stories integrated into each chapter, each one giving more and more interesting details about life in Paris within the era that was incredibly liberating. Since this book was written by a well known young French widow who later remarried (1899-1980), these stories were fictionalized episodes, written in the third person, with all the names changed, Even with the pure sense of the 1920s, these happened to most likely be the author's fantasies about her assorted siblings and siblings in law who commit adultery in the most predictable places you can expect someone to get caught in, creating the characters personality to not care about anything but their self satisfaction. Aside from standard seductions, there's a lesbian sequence, a Swedish masseur, a sinning priest, and a couple of chapters devoted to Marquis de Sade, whom happens to become one of the main characters. The sexual seductions are graphic, though cut off when things that can happen later on, are left to your imagination. The sexual seduction scenes seen throughout the book are part of the theme that makes it more liable to know what exactly was happening during the 1920's when life was expressing ones self and having freedom.

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