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Pleasure Paperback - 2013
by Gabriele D'Annunzio; Lara Gochin Raffaelli (Translator); Foreword by Lara Gochin Raffaelli
Summary
Putting the sex back in Pleasure, here is the first new English translation since the Victorian era of the great Italian masterpiece of sensuality and seduction
Like Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray, Andrea Sperelli lives his life as a work of art, seeking beauty and flouting the rules of morality and social interaction along the way. In his aristocratic circles in Rome, he is a serial seducer. But there are two women who command his special regard: the beautiful young widow Elena, and the pure, virgin-like Maria. In Andrea’s pursuit of the exalted heights of extreme pleasure, he plays them against each other, spinning a sadistic web of lust and deceit.
This new translation of D’Annunzio’s masterpiece, the first in more than one hundred years, restores what was considered too offensive to be included in the 1898 translation—some of the very scenes that are key to the novel’s status as a landmark of literary decadence.
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- Title Pleasure
- Author Gabriele D'Annunzio; Lara Gochin Raffaelli (Translator); Foreword by Lara Gochin Raffaelli
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 2nd Printing
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group
- Date 2013-07-30
- ISBN 9780143106746 / 0143106740
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.7 in (19.56 x 12.95 x 1.78 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013006549
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
“A fascinating psychological novel about the mind of a seducer . . . Lara Gochin Raffaelli has performed a real service by restoring Pleasure to an English-speaking public, or rather giving it to us, in effect, for the first time. . . . In the wake of Pleasure’s spectacular and scandalous success, [Andrea] Sperelli became for an entire generation a type that many chose to imitate—as Goethe’s Werther was for readers of the Romantic era, or Jay Gatsby for the Jazz Age.” —Alexander Stille, from the Introduction
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