Lust: Lascivious Love Stories and Passionate Poems (The Chronicles of Sin)
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 081180691X / Publisher: Chronicle Books, August 1994
Collects stories, poems, and fables on lust and its realization, including works by Anais Nin, Vladimir Nabokov, Sappho, Dante Alighieri, and Anne Rice
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All the yearning, the passion, the wantonness of lust and its realization is explored in this collection of lascivious love stories, passionate poems, and playful fables. There is taboo lust, as in Vladimir Nabokov's ground-breaking novel Lolita; blood-lust, as Anne Rice chronicled so forcefully in her novel The Vampire Lestat; and the sweetly romantic lust of Sappho's poetry. But then there is Dante Alighieri, reminding us in his Inferno that lustful sinners will be punished in Hell, and Milan Kundera to intellectualize lust into three principles, and Italo Calvino to discuss the humorous side of lust among the reptiles.
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