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ISBN-10: 1902588932
ISBN-13: 9781902588933
Publisher: Wet Angel Books
Publish Date: 10/31/2012
Dimensions: 8.40" L, 5.40" W, 0.50" H

The Anti-Justine: Or, the Joys of Eros

Introduction by: Iwan Bloch

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Overview

Restif de la Bretonne (1734–1806) was perhaps the key author amongst a glut of imitators inspired by the publication of the Marquis de Sade’s “obscene” masterworks Juliette and Justine in the late 18th century. In 1798 Restif wrote his pornographic epic THEe ^ANTI-JUSTINE (or The Joys of Eros), thus inaugurating a long tradition of “Sadean literature” that continues to this day.

THEe ^ANTI-JUSTINE is a pornographic novelization of Restif’s own life and sexual debauches, which the author tried to defend “morally” by declaring his book to be an “antidote” to the supposed poison of de Sade; yet whilst the book opens with a spurious warning to women against cruelty, it soon develops into a monumental odyssey of sexual depravity which often rivals de Sade in its relentlessly explicit nature.

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ISBN-10: 1902588932
ISBN-13: 9781902588933
Publisher: Wet Angel Books
Publish Date: 10/31/2012
Dimensions: 8.40" L, 5.40" W, 0.50" H
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