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Dirty Books: Erotic Fiction and the Avant-Garde in Mid-Century Paris and New York

Dirty Books: Erotic Fiction and the Avant-Garde in Mid-Century Paris and New York

Reay, Barry
Attwood, Nina

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Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesSexuality

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ISBN10: 1526159244
ISBN13: 9781526159243
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Jun 13 2023
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

From the 1930s to the 1970s, in New York and in Paris, daring publishers and writers were producing banned pornographic literature. The books were written by young, impecunious writers, poets, and artists, many anonymously. Most of these pornographers wrote to survive, but some also relished the freedom to experiment that anonymity provided - men writing as women, and women writing as men - and some (Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller) went on to become influential figures in modernist literature.

Dirty books tells the stories of these authors and their remarkable publishers: Jack Kahane of Obelisk Press and his son Maurice Girodias of Olympia Press, whose catalogue and repertoire anticipated that of the more famous US publisher Grove Press. It offers a humorous and vivid snapshot of a fascinating moment in pornographic and literary history, uncovering a hidden, earlier history of the sexual revolution, when the profits made from erotica helped launch the careers of literary cult figures.

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