Gamiani
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Gamiani, ou Deux Nuits d'Excès, is a French novella first published in 1833. Its author is supposed to have been Alfred de Musset, and the eponymous heroine a portrait of his lover, George Sand. It became a bestseller among nineteenth century erotic literature.
The novel was illustrated with unsigned lithographs whose authorship remains unknown. They have been attributed to Achille Devéria, Henri Grevedon and Octave Tassaert.
Outline
Supposedly modeled after George Sand, this work gives us a young man observing the Countess Gamiani and a young girl named Fanny (an obvious reference to Fanny Hill, Gamiani emulates its avoidance of coarse words and use of sexual euphemisms) engaged in their lesbian bed. Having watched them and provoked by their abandonment, he reveals himself, joins them, and they spend the night alternately sharing their intimate histories and their bodies. The stories they tell include the rape of one in a monastery and the nearly fatal debauchment of another in a convent, as well as encounters with a number of animals, including an ape and a donkey.
Author Edith Wharton had an unpublished work based on this text.
Themes
- Lesbianism
- main theme, expressed as tribade.
- Bestiality
- Gamiani includes two scenes of bestiality described with a luxury of detail. One is with a jackass and one with a
See also
- Illustrated book
- Gamiani/Source
- Love affair between Alfred de Musset and George Sand
- Etude sur le Gamiani de Musset
- Je meurs dans la rage du plaisir, dans la rage de la douleur !… je n’en puis plus !… heu !…
