Erotika Biblion
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| A comparatively modern edition of the ''Erotika Biblion'', with a bibliography and a reliable text edited by [[Guillaume Apollinaire]], was published at Paris, 1910, by the [[Bibliothèque des Curieux]]. | A comparatively modern edition of the ''Erotika Biblion'', with a bibliography and a reliable text edited by [[Guillaume Apollinaire]], was published at Paris, 1910, by the [[Bibliothèque des Curieux]]. | ||
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Erotika Biblion is a book by Comte de Mirabeau first published pseudonymously (a Rome, de l'Imprimerie du Vatican) in 1783. It describes a series of coded sexual practices. The biblion in the title refers to the Bible and the fact that during its translation, the sexual events dating from Antiquity which treated a euphemistic language. The book also treats the concept of elective affinities, bible translation, effluvia, sympathism; and mentions the obscure 17th century astronomer Jeremy Shakerley.
The Henry Marchand in The Erotic History of France calls it one of "the strangest books ever written." Marchand further notes that "the whole edition of this work was confiscated immediately so that only fourteen copies of it are extant today. It was naturally placed on the Index, too, under the title of Amatoria Bibliorum. Subsequent editions met the same fate but the book has reproduced itself."
A comparatively modern edition of the Erotika Biblion, with a bibliography and a reliable text edited by Guillaume Apollinaire, was published at Paris, 1910, by the Bibliothèque des Curieux.
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Writing
The book was written during the imprisonment of Mirabeau at the donjon de Vincennes between May 14 1777 and June 8 1780 while another prisoner, the Marquis de Sade was incarcerated there between Janury 14 1777.
Chapter headings — with their paraphrased meanings
- Ischa, or the creation of man and his superiority to woman.
- Tropoide, or about incest.
- Thalabe, or concerning masturbation.
- Anandrine, or concerning tribadism.
- Akripoidie, or concerjiing circumcision.
- Kadesch, or concerning unnatural unchastity.
- Behemao, or concerning unchastity with animals.
- Leguanmanie, or views about orgasm and divers notes about prostitution.
On elective affinities and sympathism
- "Chaque corps a ses émanations; elles sont en pure perte sur la terre : dans l'anneau, elles formaient une atmosphère toujours agissante à des distances considérables; et ces émanations, dont Shackerley n'a pu donner une idée qu'en les comparant à ces atomes qu'on distingue à l'aide du rayon solaire introduit dans la chambre obscure, ces émanations, dis- je, répondaient à toutes les houppes nerveuses du sentiment de l'individu. Semblables aux étaminesdes plantes, aux affinités chimiques, elles s'enlaçaient dans les manations d'un autre individu, lorsque la sympathie s'y rencontrait;ce qui, comme on peut aisément le concevoir, multipliait à l'infini des sensations dont nous ne pouvons nous former qu'une image très-infidèle. Elles rendaient, par exemple, les jouissances de deux amants semblables à celles d'Alphée, qui, pour jouir d'Arétbuse que Diane venait de changer en fontaine, se métamorphosa en fleuve, afin de s'unir plus intimement à son amante, en mêlant ses ondes avec les siennes.
Anandrine
- "l'Anandrine sert de pendant honteux du Thalaba, et nous représente, dans la femme, l'épouvantable vice qu'il a critiqué dans l'homme. Il nous fait voir dans quel degré d'abjection peut tomber un sexe aimable, si bien fait pour plaire, lorsqu'il a franchi les bornes de la pudeur."--Erotika Biblion[1]
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