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The Autobiography of a Flea

Description: ISBN 1562012940 / Genre: Fiction / The Autobiography of a Flea contains, in abundance, all the elements of great 19th Century erotic ... more

The Autobiography of a Flea ... literature: innocent maidens, lusty, unscrupulous clerics, wayward wives and duped husbands. These are the ingredients that have made this classic French work of erotica justly famous.

Newest Review: ... that there's a mention of the patron who marries the young woman and who is also the ultimate ruler in the village simply ... more

... because he owns money and land in a feudal system. You can add to this the hypocrisy of men of religion who use even the most sacred concepts to justify their evil objectives, and also the ignorance of the villagers who believe all what the priests tell them. However, all these things for me are no more than minor cultural issues whose existence is the book is unavoidable, and they are not discussed enough to be considered as main themes. What attracted my attention in this book, and what I referred to in the titl...more

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The Autobiography of a Flea: A Picture of the Flea as a Moral Pornographer (681 words)
by - written on 06/01/08 (Very useful, 174 readings)
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The Autobiography of a Flea By Anonymous The sophisticated Flea is the narrator that travels to France and tells the story of a young woman who is forced to marry a much older rich man. It takes him forever to consummate this marriage, so the virgin beauty gets some help from the impatient priest of the village. This is not one of the book in which words are euphemized so as to make the erotic effect imperceptible for the reader. It is true that words like "wine-maker" are used at times as referring to the sexual organs or even to coitus, but so many "taboo words" are used adequately and ... Read the complete review