The Exploits of a Young Don Juan

by Guillaume Apollinaire

Book Overview

The Exploits of a Young Don Juan recounts the sexual coming of age of Roger amidst his entourage of naive and not so naive woman while his father is away on business. And Roger surely plays while the cat is away, possessing a virility and manhood to match, as he seduces those around him into the most compromising scenes and situations with his lascivious will.

From the author who brought us Eleven Thousand Rods, a work banned...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1508580049
• ISBN13: 9781508580041
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 68 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Fast Moving but ultimately empty

This is a story of a young man who has NEVER experienced physical intimacy with women and is now going to make up for "lost time". The action is rapid. The physical activity is well-described. However, the women are -- essentially -- so shallow as to be "puppets". Every woman described "gives in" to our hero with only the faintest of protests. Even his sister who has a boy friend / fiance gets "moving right along". The closest that we see to a "build-up" and some level of protest is with the Aunt and even there, the objections are almost just pro-forma. I mean, is it really likely that a fairly religious woman would have NO objections to incest? I am willing to accept that the "lower classes" in the story are really amoral but even here, I would think that there would be SOME discrimination as to who a woman chooses to sleep with. If all the hero has to do is promise a trinket to get some wench to "put out" for him, then what sort of impression are we supposed to form? That these women have NO self-pride? I would have preferred to see some "build-up" where the hero has to overcome the "scruples" of the women over time before finally reaching his goal. The endng is a bit contrived. After "knocking up" these women (including his sister!), he is able to very conveniently marry everyone off.... All's well that ends well but I am sure that this could have been more developed. On the other hand, this may have been one of Apollinaire's first efforts. So, read it , enjoy it, but do not expect too much....

A sexual awakening story of young Roger ...

Young Roger is taken to the French countryside chateaux by his mother, aunt and sister for a Summer at the age of 15 and discovers that there is more to life than playing hide and go seek. Starting with the fact Roger used to take baths with his sister till he was about 14 and she was 15 while the 27 virginal Aunt took special care to make sure they bathed and dried themselves properly, there was very little in the way of male company to teach our budding libertine that it's good to look but you're not supposed to touch .... Of course trhe encouragemnt he received from all the women around him made his life like a sensual and libidinous heaven on earth .... This book is an old and established member of erotica and I have seen it published in it's entirety in some other multi erotica novels. Unfortunately that makes these small Wordworth Classic Erotica editions probably the most expensive books on the market..... So if ya got the bucks it is one of the best ...

A Lighthearted Romp

This book tells of the sexual awakening of a young man named Roger, and how he goes about slaking his burning lust (with the maids, his aunt, his sisters...). So in other words, no real plot here. The first half of the book is a tease where we read about the things that ignite young Roger's passion. The second half has Roger seeing non-stop action. Lot's of good, dirty, fun...