Trois Filles de leur mère  

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Trois Filles de leurs mères (Three girls and their mother or The She-Devils) is a French erotic novel by Pierre Louÿs written in 1910 and published clandestinely in 1926.

Inspiré par les rapports de l'écrivain à la femme de José María de Heredia et ses trois filles (dont la plus jeunes, Louise, avait été mariée à Louÿs) aux mœurs réputées alors assez libres, il présente les mésaventures d'un homme, « X*** », qu'une prostitué de trente-six ans, Teresa, et ses trois filles, Mauricette, Lili et Charlotte, visitent à tour de rôle. Selon André Pieyre de Mandiargues, ce « roman se rattache de plusieurs façons à (...) l'idéal du genre [érotique] » et constitue le « chef d'œuvre de Pierre Louÿs ».

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A mother and her three daughters...sharing their inexhaustible sexual favours between the same young man, each other, and anyone else who enters their web of depravity. From a chance encounter on the stairway with a voluptuous young girl, the narrator is drawn to become the plaything of four rapacious females, experiencing them all in various combinations of increasingly wild debauchery, until they one day vanish as mysteriously as they had appeared.

Described by Susan Sontag as one of the few works of the erotic imagination to deserve true literary status, The The She Devils remains Pierre Lous' most intense, claustrophobic work; a study of sexual obsession and monomania unsurpassed in its depictions of carnal excess, unbridled lust and limitless perversity. --Kathleen Murphy



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