Ooh La La! Contemporary French Erotica by Women

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Pub. Date: 2006-10-30
Publisher(s): Running Press Adult
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Summary

People say the French stay slim thanks to their good wine and regular meals. This might prove to be the case, but the hottest erotica currently being written flows from the sexy pens of French women of letters. On the basis that writers of erotica are often known to find inspiration in their own lives and experiences, one can only draw certain conclusions! Dominique Aury under the penname Pauline Reage wrote The Story of O in 1954 and opened the floodgates for a whole new, sulphurous tradition of female erotica, since appropriated by female writers all over the world, including Anne Rice in the USA writing as A.N. Roquelaure. But the wonderfully perverse imagination of French authors has continued unabated ever since, and the daughters of O are now legions, including leading lights like Catherine Millet, Regine Deforges, Francoise Rey, Vanessa Duries, Florence Dugas, Alina Reyes, and the famous fashion designer Sonia Rykiel, all of whom contributed to this collection. French literary sex is hot, elegant, gently perverse, quietly shocking, and always arousing and these twenty-nine stories will leave no reader indifferent.

Author Biography

Maxim Jakubowski is owner of the renowned Murder One bookshop in London and author and editor of a number of books, including On Tenderness Express and a number of popular "Mammoth Books," including Illustrated Erotica and Pulp Fiction.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION vii
THE MAN FROM ALBUQUERQUE 1(12)
Julie Saget
THE GARAGE 13(14)
Astrid Schilling
TAROT 27(36)
Florence Dugas
CONVERSATION (A TRIBUTE TO ALBERTO MORAVIA) 63(14)
Claire Yeniden
A PLOT FOREVER 77(6)
Laure Clergerie
CHALAD'ORO 83(16)
Marie Boman
EYEWASH 99(6)
Michèle Larue
THE MAN WITH NO FACE 105(4)
Alina Reyes
THE SPRINKLER SPRINKLED 109(10)
Maina Lecherbonnier
IN MEMORY OF A COCK 119(6)
Sandrine Le Coustumer
LIES 125(8)
Geraldine Zwang
THE HORSEWOMAN 133(12)
Brigitte Lahaie
A STROKE OF LUCK 145(14)
Françoise Rey
THE BLACK SWAN HOTEL 159(8)
Nathalie Perreau
OF HIGHER JOYS 167(8)
Jeanne Decize
SUITE 2502 175(10)
Julie Turconi
SACRIFICE 185(6)
Karine Keller
POOR FISHERMEN 191(6)
Agnès Verlet
FRANCE 197(6)
Valérie Clo
THE BELL 203(8)
Calixthe Beyala
MAKO 211(6)
Marie L.
PASO DOBLE 217(6)
Caroline Lamarche
LOS ANGELES SONG 223(8)
Françoise Simpère
ONE-ACT PLAY 231(6)
Sonia Rykiel
THE ECSTASIES 237(10)
Sophie Cadalen
BELLE DE NUIT 247(8)
Jeanne de Berg
BULLFIGHTING 255(10)
Françoise Allain
THE PROTOCOL OF LA FÈRE 265(14)
Florence Dugas
THE HUT IN THE JARDIN DU LUXEMBOURG 279(6)
Régine Deforges
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS 285(8)
ABOUT THE EDITORS 293

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