An insightful analysis of the erotic sentiment through history and literature by the editor of Sade, Paulin R age, Andr Breton and Pierre Klossowski.
Since he was fourteen, Jean-Jacques Pauvert has been an avid reader. Early on he discovered what so many refused to mention: the erotic sentiment. Barely perceptible, but closely woven into so many stories, it was not something spoken of in polite society.
When he became Jean-Jacques Pauvert, the publisher, he was at last able to give free rein to his investigation of eroticism. Times had changed as had eroticism itself. Going back to the earliest traces of writing, studying fundamental texts, seeing today's world with the eyes of another time, Pauvert has perhaps pinpointed one of the problems of our century: the loss, or the evaporation of eroticism as a sentiment.