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It was listed as a modern translation which I m guessing meant they left the naughty bits in I did enjoy the book a lot It was great to have interesting and independent women characters The lesbian couple were adorable When put in perspective with English literature at this time it was miles ahead I must admit though I was quite disappointed by the ending After stating so explicitly in the introduction that this was NOT a tale of morality I thought it terribly disappointing to not only condemn the main character but to do so with scripture It was depressing that she had to pay for her crimes and not the man who committed them There were a couple things that just didn t make sense to me.
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Pierre Lou s was a French poet and writer most renowned for lesbian and classical themes in some of his writings He is known as a writer who sought to express pagan sensuality with stylistic perfection He was made first a Chevalier and then an Officer of the L gion dhonneur for his contributions to French literature Born in Belgium in 1870 but moved to France where he would spend the rest of his life He was a friend of authors Andr Gide and Oscar Wilde and of composer Claude Debussy Pierre Lou s was a French poet and writer most renowned for lesbian and classical themes in some of his writings He is known as a writer who sought to express pagan sensuality with stylistic perfection He was made first a Chevalier and then an Officer of the L gion d honneur for his contributions to French literature Born in Belgium in 1870 but moved to France where he would spend the rest of his life He was a friend of authors Andr Gide and Oscar Wilde and of composer Claude Debussy site_link Alexandrie Ier si cle avant J sus Christ un sculpteur en vogue amant de la reine tombe amoureux de la belle courtisane Chrysis qui exige de lui trois gages Il commet trois crimes Puis il r ve que son d sir est assouvi Il exige alors de Chrysis qu elle aille d poser les trois objets sur le rocher du phare d Alexandrie nue comme Aphrodite Immense succ s sa publication ce roman de m urs antiques sans tomber dans une rudition excessive ressuscite tout l imaginaire esth tique de la fin du si cle le c t Mus e d Orsay le p plum le merveilleux les aventures les symboles l rotisme par un ma tre du style La tradition de Salammb se m le au marivaudage tragique de Carmen c est comme disait Lou s un roman antique sur la femme et sur la lumi re AphroditeA decadent and erotic historical novel the prose and the descriptions of Ptolemaic Alexandria are just luscious the plot itself isn t much but that is not why you read this sort of work If I m not mistaken this became a best seller when it came out For an older work downloaded off Project Gutenberg the translation was quite explicit It was a delight to her to look at herself through the water She saw herself like a great pearl shell lying open on a rock Her skin became smooth and perfect the lines of her legs tapered away into blue light her whole form was supple her hands were transfigured The lightness of her body was such that she raised herself on two fingers and allowed herself to float for a little and fall gently back on the marble causing the water to ripple softly against her chin The water entered her ears with the provocation of a kiss. Aphrodite's child It was when taking her bath that Chrysis began to adore herself Every part of her body became separately the object of tender admiration and the motive of a caress She played a thousand charming pranks with her hair and her breasts Sometimes even she accorded a direct satisfaction to her perpetual desires and no place of repose seemed to her propitious for the minute slowness of this delicate solace The orient was bathed in a sea of colour A long band livid as a water leaf enveloped the horizon with an olive coloured girdle Higher up several tints sprang out of one another liquid sheets of blue green sky irisated or lilac coloured melting insensibly into the leaden azure of the upper heavens Then these tiers of colour rose slowly a line of gold appeared mounted expanded a thin thread of purple illumined this melancholic dawn and in a flood of blood the sun was born French Ah This writer is sublime. PDF aphrodite I cannot think I can only respond as the string of a violin quivers under the drawing of a bow This is prose so voluptuous that no amount of imagery sumptuous voluminous sensuous or rapturous can even begin to describe the delights of this book. Aphrodite kylie minogue Literature only reaches the utmost limit of its seductiveness when it gives occasion for jealousy not the petty feelings that constitute envy of one writer for another but the searing tumultuous emotion that demands withholding its beauty and wonder from the eyes of all other readers. Aphrodite latinopoulou pt 2No terceiro e ltimo volume da grande s ntese da hist ria do s culo XIX A Era do Imp rio 1875 1914 o historiador Eric Hobsbawm cita como uma evid ncia do progresso ulteriormente quebrado pela Primeira Guerra Mundial o apoio cultura dado pelas classes dominantes desse per odo que permitiu a publica o da obra de Rainer Maria Rilke e de Marcel Proust Por lapso ou talvez por puritanismo esqueceu Pierre Lou s Imagem Pierre Lou s 1870 1925 Figura controversa do simbolismo de l ngua francesa elitista por natureza acreditando que o trabalho de um escritor era escrever para uns quantos eleitos capazes de compreender a sua obra Lou s legou nos algumas das mais belas p ginas de fino lirismo de todo o s culo XIX Publica em 1894 Les Chansons de Bilitis traduzido em portugu s com demasiada liberdade po tica como O Sexo de Ler de Bilitis fruto de um extenso trabalho de pesquisa hist rico liter ria para recriar o mundo grego pr cl ssico do s culo VI a C. Aphrodite statue tendo sido posteriormente adaptado para piano por Claude Debussy Com Bilitis uma suposta amante de Safo vivemos a exalta o do amor em todas as suas vertentes atrav s de cento e cinquenta e oito poemas que narram a sua vida num puro estilo grego chegando mesmo durante um curto espa o de tempo a ser confundidos como o pr prio autor propunha com a produ o original de uma Bilitis que nunca existiu. Aphrodite jeans Afrodite surge na senda de Les Chansons de Bilitis em 1896 e catapultou Pierre Lou s para o sucesso liter rio do s culo em Fran a vendendo um total de 350 mil c pias sucesso que fez a fortuna da ent o rec m criada editora Mercure de France Desta feita a ac o decorre na Alexandria do tempo da rainha Berenice IV 58 55 a C irm mais velha da grande Cle patra Acompanhamos a mais bela mulher da cidade origin ria da Galileia raptada aos 12 anos por mercadores que a instalam no bairro judeu e a estabelecem como prostituta ou cortes Sara de seu nascimento denominada pelos amantes como Cr sis ou Criseida nome que evoca um dos muitos ep tetos de Afrodite dada a sua grande semelhan a com a deusa do amor e a perfei o arc dica de uma beldade de cabelos dourados e pele alva e maviosa Cr sis prestes a completar 20 anos amante de centenas de homens e mulheres pois o lesbianismo na Antiguidade hel nica era n o s socialmente aceite como muito frequente nunca amou Imagem Representa o do Farol de Alexandria marco do Egipto Hel nico por H ThierschQuando se cruza com Dem trio o famoso escultor da Afrodite que povoa o centro do maior templo de Alexandria e ainda mais famoso amante da rainha a sua vida mudar para sempre Cansado do amor exigente de Berenice enfadado da louca devo o por parte das mulheres da cidade que o perseguem e assediam a toda a hora Dem trio contenta se com a perfei o est tica da est tua que criou Contudo positivamente encantado com a conjuga o da beleza de Cr sis com a arte de a saber apresentar e servir se dela para respirar sensualidade e confian a v se rejeitado nos seus avan os Desta forma Dem trio apaixona se at servid o por Cr sis Deleitada por prender o ardor do altivo e orgulhoso amante da rainha Criseida exige lhe a consuma o de tr s crimes como prova do seu amor o roubo do espelho de Safo pertencente a B quis uma cortes rival a aquisi o do pente de marfim de Nitaucrite antiga rainha do Egipto pelo assassinato da sua ent o possuidora a esposa do Sumo sacerdote e a profana o do templo de Afrodite atrav s do furto do colar das Verdadeiras P rolas de Anadiomene que embelezam a est tua divina fruto do labor do escultor. Aphrodite's child Servil adora o pela nica mulher capaz de lhe suscitar interesse Dem trio aplica se na reuni o dos tr s objectos Tudo consegue sem deixar provas da sua inf mia Na noite anterior entrega das j ias deita se extenuado e sonha numa descri o de extrema beleza provavelmente o melhor cap tulo da obra com tudo aquilo que Cr sis lhe prometeu a revela o dos seus encantos f sicos o deslumbramento pelas artes da dan a e da sedu o o cantar das poesias de amor judaico e a uni o sexual com todos os seus requintes Atrav s deste sonho transcendental Dem trio liberta se do feiti o do amor escravizador de Cr sis abdica de reclama la de possu la pois j a det m na forma que considera mais absoluta a est tica Imagem Capa da reedi o de 1900 ilust de douard ZierQuando a cidade em plena celebra o das Afrod sias festividades em honra da deusa do prazer acorda para a revela o dos crimes hediondos Cr sis bra o activo de Eros nas feridas de amor alheias por Eros ferida de uma forma que n o previra Desejara apenas subjugar Dem trio negar lhe aquilo que todos os outros teriam ao seu alcance por uma m dica quantia fazendo pagar se a um pre o incomensur vel nunca antes exigido e acaba finalmente v tima de amor desejando oferecer lhe aquilo que nunca ofereceu a ningu m o seu cora o Todavia n o j o mesmo Dem trio que encontra Esbarra contra a dura realidade do ideal est tico de novo vencedor na alma do seu amado Suplica lhe que a ame mas no seu renovado ego smo Dem trio exige lhe uma condi o deve caminhar pela cidade nua envergando apenas as tr s j ias causadoras dos crimes que horrorizam Alexandria presa e condenada morte por envenenamento e s no momento em que deve beber a cicuta suicida recebe a companhia indiferente de Dem trio que logo ap s o ltimo suspiro modela o corpo de Cr sis na exaltada posi o de amor do seu sonho para o modelo da sua derradeira obra prima a Ess ncia da Vida Imagem A queda de Cr sis ilust de douard ZierEsta uma obra de perfei o estil stica absoluta Nada escrito ao acaso tudo tem um prop sito A profundidade liter ria que a obra cont m nas suas meras 224 p ginas a prova de uma laboriosa delapida o art stica digna da melhor produ o do movimento simbolista Encontra se dividida ao sabor cl ssico numa trag dia em cinco actos resultante do imolar do modelo ateniense afincadamente treinado por Lou s A sua escrita n o deixa de me recordar Colette no seu Ch ri Contudo o que para mim lhe acrescenta mais valor a tentativa de Pierre recuperar um tempo anterior moralidade e cosmogonia crist s possibilitando nos um raro vislumbre sobre o mundo perdido da Antiguidade Devido exposi o da inerente sensualidade mais fresca flor da pele da juventude inebriada da terra como define o mundo antigo t o contr ria moral vitoriana Pierre Lou s seria durante d cadas considerado um autor maldito relegado no final da vida para a obscuridade de autores malditos no entanto que tantas vezes prov m as mais nuas verdades French A little bit of a preamble here so those looking for a succinct review need to jump down a few paragraphs. Aphrodite kindle store First point when I first started assembling my reading list which for a very long time afterwards was just an endless spreadsheet document with names of books and their authors about 20 odd years ago and was pilfering all kinds of names of classic and genre lit to add I came up against a conundrum was I going to include erotica a genre which at that point in my life I had little use for Sure you can make the easy one handed reading jokes all you d like but somewhere deep in my mind was the idea that much like almost everything else I d included there had to be good reason why the genre existed and interesting texts to be read On the other hand I really couldn t conceive of what could be gained from endless descriptions of physical encounters and emotional conflicts Well years later I m glad to have made the right decision Oh no doubt there will be duds here and there as there are in any genres but my inclusion of potential erotica reads will likely be helped by my overarching focus on and love for non contemporary books There are all kinds of reasons for that focus love not worth exploring here but suffice it to say that crude modern gropings along the lines of 50 SHADES OF GRAY were never going to enter into my orbit anyway And as I ve grown older and read widely I ve found that one of my greatest joys in reading comes from placing a work in its chronological historical cultural context and there s no reason why erotica will not serve just as well as any other examples over the years. Poetry aphrodite statue Second point My reading of this books was somewhat hampered by my choice of physical text I happened to have having once worked for them the illustrated hardcovers produced by Humanoids the American arm of French bande dessin e publisher Les Humano des Associ s of Metal Hurlant Heavy Metal fame which accompany the text with erotic art from different artists as can be seen here Aphrodite Book One Aphrodite Book Two Aphrodite Book Three but soon discovered that they seemed to have abandoned the English versions before completing the text A quick visit to a used book store scored me the Modern Library version translation seen here but reading that made me question how effective thorough edited the Humanoids texts were I don t really have time in my life to re read anything so I greatly enjoyed finishing the book while worried that much enjoyment may have been missed from the first half C est la vie As a short aside the illustrated version are quite nice although the Milo Manara artwork while certainly accomplished is a bit too uh clinically gynecological for my tastes the Georges Bess artwork has a nice poster art quality at times and the Claire Wendling artwork is in a darker interesting style REVIEW First Tier Is this book worth reading I would say yes for a number of readers interests for those interested in the portrayal of ancient times and customs practices involving sex and culture for those interested in an examination of the links between passion lust and crime and for those interested in a Literary Decadent Symbolist worldview applied to the preceding topics APHRODITE is never boring or heavy and achieves a remarkable effect by the climax Much than a work of erotic historic fiction it features musings on some deep topics A thoroughly enjoyable read REVIEW Second Tier So what you are getting here is actually two things. EPub aphrodite statue One is an historical novel set in ancient Alexandria the full title is APHRODITE MOEURS ANTIQUES Ancient Manners intensely focused on the lives customs practices of courtesans prostitutes and their customers the pampered royalty and intellectual classes of the city. Arts Literature aphrodite But Lou s deliberately uses this setting and story to indulge in multiple exercises a descriptive celebration of physical beauty and physical love a luxuriance in Orientalist detail an exposition of Libertine Pagan philosophy an exploration of just how much erotic content he can get away with as per contemporary s a savoring of contrasts between ancient and modern morals ethics and finally a relishing of the freedom that the fin de si cle has given him to introduce darker undertones to the narrative contrasting eternal art with mortal beauty life and death intellectual philosophy and human suffering crime and spiritual faith etc So as may be seen this scandalous phenomenal bestseller of its time is something than a mere stroke book Any prurient interests it may have engendered have long since been overridden by our culture and so one can enjoy it for all the further details to be teased from the text Which is not to say the overall erotic tone is not present the opening scenes in which Chrysis luxuriates in sleeping late bathing and performing her daily ablutions and toilette while admiring and enjoying her body are a masterclass in subtle tactile erotic writing with a sensory evocation of texture color surface light and scent and a focus on hair skin water perfume atmosphere dressing costume and tinting. Aphrodite pdf The plot is fairly straightforward Chrysis a stunningly beautiful 19 year old courtesan is desired by celebrity sculptor D m trios whose mistress is Alexandria s queen B r nice But Chrysis is indifferent and her perverse streak If someone should adore me it seems to me that I would find much pleasure in making him suffer until he died of it drives her to demand three offerings as proof of the sculptor s love Obtaining the offerings will involve the commission of three crimes each worse than the last the mirror of Sappho theft the High Priestess Ivory Comb murder as she is never without it and the necklace that adorns the statue of Aphrodite sacrilege As D m trios sets upon his task although deeply conflicted we are given a cross section of life in the city at the time the parties and orgies the lives of slaves and courtesans etc The climax which I will reveal only in a spoiler space later involves a reversal of power and a decision to embrace transient beauty over life itself and how art preserves that beauty in eternal if dead form. Aphrodite latinopoulou D m trios who is used to being loved for his physical beauty and skill but not used to loving someone is the main mouthpiece of the Decadent worldview here He is melancholy because he finds that he loves the marble statue of Aphrodite he has sculpted than his actual lover the queen because it is perfect and eternal His passion for Chrysis undergoes an interesting transformation as the story proceeds hinging specifically on a detailed symbolic dream he experiences near the climax Chrysis specific request for objects relating to the presentation of physical beauty also has a neat inversion at the end There are interesting secondary characters and scenes as well even tween Cleopatra shows up for a chapter Rhodis Mytrocleia lesbians appalled by heterosexual love make a demand of Chrysis who enthuses in her seeming power over the sculptor and contemplates requesting regicide and revolution that she promise that they can officially wed and adopt children as lesbians can in their home country We are given a detailed overview of the Temple of Aphrodite Astarte which houses 1400 courtesans of various ages nationalities and customs including 10 year old courtesan Melitta who we hear from occasionally Naucrates Chrysis discuss the philosophy of love between the same and opposite sexes and the need for courtesans in society and in one powerful scene following a night s orgy to celebrate the freedom of former slave Aphrodesia she is unjustly blamed for D m trios theft and crucified Phrasilus Timon offer a dying woman their dueling philosophical aid the former all cold rational unhelpful stoicism the latter physical emotional succor APHRODITE is a surprisingly powerful work about passion and desire and their consequences The historical setting allows for contrasts between the ancient and modern world wherein the ancient is seen as pragmatic regarding sex sexuality etc and beautiful in a cultural appreciation of the arts but conversely savage orgies slavery a crucifixion scene and the writing is never less than subtly masterful. EPub aphrodite goddess Finally a bit for the spoiler zone Upon realizing that he has already consummated his love during his symbolic dream of Chrysis after which the power dynamic between them shifts D m trios demand that Aphrodite wear in public the items he has debased himself to obtain thus sealing her fate for the punishment of the crimes took me by surprise and I have to say her final proud and incandescent ascension of the Lighthouse of Alexandria to face the public was simply a stunningly powerful moment Equally appreciated was the quasi morbidity of the scenes following her prison suicide and D m trios posing of her cold body to model the perfect statue as her deteriorating corpse is shuffled around town by well intentioned friends the kind of sardonic detail and caustic commentary on the Life Art dichotomy that we could only have gotten out of the fin de si cle Bravo French I was led to this book by some intriguing amusing references to it at the beginning of Roberto Bolano s The Savage Detectives It is a thoroughly enjoyable work of quasi literary semi pedantic decadent somewhat Symbolist inevitably kitschy soft core eroticism with a good bit of Orientalism thrown in for good measure It is the story of a much admired though fictional Alexandrian courtesan in the reign of Berenice II of Egypt i. Aphrodite publications e 3rd century BCE Shortly after the novella begins the heroine chants a song poem in praise of her body ending with some words of praise for her sex She is a purple flower overflowing with honey and scent and that or less sets the tone It may remind you of Flaubert s Salaambo though of course Flaubert evidently was much into violence and sadism than sex per se Aphrodite was written in 1895 when Louys was 25 and published the following year and it was one of the best selling books of its time Louys was a friend of Valery Mallarme and Wilde who dedicated Salome to Louys and an admirer of the new work of the young Gide Luis Bunuel s still unsettling 1977 film Cet Obscur Objet du Desir is based on a Louys novella Louys ended his life as a sad and sickly figure preyed upon by his friends and acquaintances and trying to alleviate his migraine with cocaineLouys was praised for his literary French form and criticized for his decadent provocations a scene in which an Alexandrian courtesan is accused of theft and crucified in the midst of a chatty philosophical dinner party orgy was not exactly well received by the critical establishment. Aphrodite fortnite He was also a great celebrant of Lesbian love indeed like Kristeva in her Soleil Noir Louys seems to question how on earth women ever come to be attracted to men at all and to this day Louys is something of a minor icon in Lesbian cultural history. Aphrodite goddess In his Introduction Louys suggests that his novel is meant to serve the cause of reminding readers of how sensual and pleasurable life could be if we think of the Mediterranean cultures before the Christian era of sin and shame Against the frigid efficient North Louys pits the languorous hedonistic South sensuality is the mysterious but necessary and creative condition of intellectual development Those who have not felt the exigencies of the flesh to the uttermost whether for love or hatredare incapable of understanding the full range of the exigencies of the mind Just as the beauty of the soul illumines the whole face in like manner virility of the body is an indispensable condition of a fruitful brain The worst insult that Delacroix could address to men the insult that he hurled without distinction against the decriers of Rubens and the detractors of Ingres was the terrible word eunuchs. Aphrodite jeans But further it would seem that the genius of peoples like that of individuals is above all sensual All the cities that have reigned over the world Babylon Alexandria Athens Rome Venice Paris have by a general law been as licentious as they were powerful as if their dissoluteness was necessary to their splendour The cities where the legislator has attempted to implant a narrow unproductive and artificial virtue have seen themselves condemned to utter death from the very first day It was so with Laced mon which in the centre of the most prodigious intellectual development that the human spirit has ever witnessed between Corinth and Alexandria between Syracuse and Miletus has bequeathed us neither a poet nor a painter nor a philosopher nor an historian nor a savant barely the popular renown of a sort of Bobillot who got killed in a mountain defile with three hundred men without even succeeding in gaining the victory And it is for this reason that after two thousand years we are able to gauge the nothingness of Spartan virtue and declare following Renan s exhortation that we curse the soil that bred this mistress of sombre errors and insult it because it exists no longer. Aphrodite hades 2 Shall we see the return of the days of Ephesus and Cyrene Alas the modern world is succumbing to an invasion of ugliness Civilization is marching to the north is entering into mist cold mud What night A people clothed in black fills the mean streets What is it thinking of We know not but our twenty five years shiver at being banished to a land of old men. Aphrodite statue But let those who will ever regret not to have known that rapturous youth of the earth which we call ancient life be allowed to live again by a fecund illusion in the days when human nudity the most perfect form that we can know and even conceive of since we believe it to be in God s image could unveil itself under the features of a sacred courtesan before the twenty thousand pilgrims who covered the strands of Eleusis when the most sensual love the divine love of which we are born was without sin let them be allowed to forget eighteen barbarous hypocritical and hideous centuries French
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