A Storm and Other Erotica

By Régine Deforges

Book Overview

The Storm and Other Erotica introduces to American audiences a controversial work of charged eroticism in the great French literary tradition of The Story of O and The Butcher. The Storm is a baroque, surreal novella that charts a beautiful young widow's fevered attempts to hold on to her adored husband. As she becomes increasingly convinced that her husband will soon reawaken to join her, her fantasies become more intense, until reality and fantasy meld into a long dream of hysterical passion. This controversial and intense novella is joined here with selections from Deforges's Perverse Tales, light erotic vignettes that play with taboo and stereotype with delightful results. In "Old Man's Funeral," an old curmudgeon's funeral in the French countryside turns suddenly charged by the arrival of his seductive niece and her young lover. And "The Truckdriver" follows a lusty young driver of a big rig through an Italy full of women dreaming of wheels. "If you are looking for a book that will keep you up at night, you have found it.... My only regret is that it didn't last longer." -- Elle

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080213632X
• ISBN13: 9780802136329
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Nathalie & Paolo - another great short piece

This compilation of Deforges' short stories is geat. I loved the title novella, The Storm. I had no trouble getting into the mood and found it riveting. But the other 4 short stories are good too. In the last, we have The Truck Driver, which depicts a trio on the road in Italy. Paolo & Natalie do the deed in the confines of his truck cab, with his partner at the wheel. It's wonderful. Anyone who has driven around Italy can identify with this authentic action, even if they haven't been involved in such earthy scenes.

Literary Erotica!

I have become a fan of French Erotica. Having read various books of this kind before, I have come to appreciate the literary and lyrical language of this genre. The Storm is a profound and surreal novella about a young widow's attempt to hold on to her husband. She makes daily visits to his grave and writes him love letters. She begins to fulfill the sexual fantasies her husband shared with her before he died of Cancer. The sexual descriptions are obscene and disturbing and not quite, well, erotic. Mind you, it is one of the most interesting love stories I have ever read.A lot of people have a preconceived notion about erotica: literary pornography. The purpose of these books is not to turn the reader on, but to allow the reader to enter the realm of the profound and deviant world of sexual fantasies. Give it a whirl!