Related e. Wikipedia Wiktionary Shop. The 20th century saw new technologies such as photography and cinema, which led to erotic photography and erotic films. Surrealism was one of the most remarkable developments as artistic movement in the 20th century, its penchant for eroticism was in evidence in surrealist literature and surrealist art. See also the erotic photography of Man Ray and the paintings of Salvador Dali.
Guillaume Apollinaire August 26 , โ November 9 , was a French poet , writer , and art critic born in Italy to a Polish mother. Two years after being wounded in World War I , he died at 38 of the Spanish flu during a pandemic. Les Onze mille verges The eleven thousand rods is an erotic novel by Guillaume Apollinaire - written around the publication is neither signed nor dated. The novel was banned from its release in until , various clandestine printings of it circulated widely for many years.
Apollinaire never publicly acknowledged authorship of the novel. The book has elements of sadism , homosexuality , paedophilia , necrophilia , coprophilia and satirical commentary on French government officials, theater administrators, police and journalists.
It was adapted as an eponymous film in , and as a graphic novel by Georges Pichard. The Exploits of a Young Don Juan Les exploits d'un jeune Don Juan , in which the year-old hero fathers three children with various members of his entourage, including his aunt. The book was made into a film by Gianfranco Mingozzi in Louis Aragon October 3 , โ December 24 , , French poet and novelist , a long-time political supporter of the communist party and prominent member of the Surrealists.
Georges Bataille September 10 , โ July 9 , was a French writer , anthropologist , archivist and philosopher best known for his novella Story of the Eye.
