Encyclopedia of erotic literature de Gaëtan Brulotte y John Phillips

Si te vas a tirar al vacío desde un avión, usas un paracaídas. Si vas a meter la pilinga en un agujero desconocido te pones un condón. Si te vas a meter a la política te extirpas el cerebro. Si aún sin saber ni madres, vas a escribir un blog sobre literatura erótica necesitas éste libro.

Hay razones para pensar que no es un libro destinado al público en general, definitivamente son ejemplares para bibliotecas. La edición es en dos libros de tapa dura que tienen mas de millar y medio de páginas y pesan sus buenos cuatro kilos y pico.....no es una lectura para la hora de dormir porque te puedes fracturar algo si al quedar dormido te cae encima.

Además, para adquirirlos le tienes que perder el cariño a casi 4,000 pesos, algo así como 320 dolares o 240 euros (eso si los encuentras). Yo, que pertenezco a esa especie en extinción llamada "Clase Media", no me puedo dar el lujo de adquirirlo (si puedo, pero tengo mis prioridades), pero eventualmente aparece y desaparece en Google Books, scribd, rapidshare, etc. una versión electrónica, que como trae búsqueda.......es una delicia.

Para compilar sus mas de 500 entradas se tuvieron que invertir 6 años de trabajo de 400 personas de distintas universidades alrededor del mundo. El libro no es una antología de la literatura erótica, ni un extracto de obras (aunque los tiene); es una verdadera enciclopedia de consulta.

Es un trabajo serio, una referencia que contiene trabajos eróticos clásicos, géneros literarios (poesía, antigüedad, drama, novela), culturas (japonés, árabe, Tailandia, etc), temas (nudismo, prostitución, muebles), autores (no necesariamente eróticos)

Todo tipo de sexualidad esta incluida, sugerencias, picaresca, sexo explicito, romance, etc. Todo tipo de obras de los últimos 4000 anos. Cada entrada tiene una extensión de mil a 8 mil palabras, de media página a 10 páginas.

Cada trabajo es objetivo, con su trama mínima, algunos ejemplos descriptivos y un análisis sin juicios morales o políticos. Nos muestra la variedad y la complejidad de la literatura erótica y sus géneros a través de los tiempos.

Esta es una enciclopedia en dos volúmenes, con información comprensiva y punto. Es una obra maestra que comienza y termina con un increíble y extenso índice de referencias cruzadas.

Árabe edad media al siglo 19, literatura haitiana, persa, gay, hermafroditismo, grissettes, pechos, bestialidad, manuales sexuales chinos, drama, Saikaku, Bataille, Nabokov, Depestre, Gombrowicz, Jong, Jelinek, Vallejo, Kawabata, Reich , Al-Nafzawi, Obayd-e Zakani, Shakespeare, Bright, Theotokis, Valdés, D.H. Lawrence, Kamasutra, Jin Ping Mei, Fanny Hill...........ustedes pidan.

No me atrevo a decir que existe una versión electrónica en PDF circulando por allí en la red, pero si existiera seria indispensable para un bloguero como yo.

Ejemplo:

APHRODISIACS

Named after the Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite, aphrodisiacs are substances consumed before or during lovemaking which are thought to enhance desire and pleasure. Scientists often question whether the supposed effects occur with any regularity, but erotic literature does not reflect those doubts.
In erotic stories, irritants usually have an aphrodisiacal function. The most striking in this regard, referred to regularly from the eighteenth century onward, is cantharides, often called "Spanish fly." It is not in fact a fly at all, but a small black beetle, Cantharis vesicatoria, which is crushed into a black powder and swallowed.
Cantharides has in fact long been known to be quite dangerous. Even in very small doses, it causes burning of the urinary tract. The great French Encyclopedie of the eighteenth century calls it a poison. But there was erotic appeal in absorbing small quantities of poison, and the burning sensation within was taken to be a powerful sign of desire.
In libertine novels of the mid- to late eighteenth century, cantharides is just one of a class of substances used. Amber was another, as was aniseed. Diabolini, from Naples, were dark, small, and hot. In general, according to the literature of northern and western Europe, the warm, Mediterranean countries were the natural sources of almost everything aphrodisiacal. In the novels of writers such as Andre´a de Nerciat, cantharides and diabolini are served up in libertine festivities as bonbons, or sweets. He calls them "charming poisons." But during the nineteenth century, the poisonous aspect became progressively more important, at the expense of the charm. There is in fact an escalation in the literary use of aphrodisiacs, and an aggravation
of their effects. A powerful myth attributes the origins of the whole thing to de Sade. The young marquis had caused a scandal in 1772, in Marseilles, by giving black confectionery to some prostitutes, who became ill as a result. In the eyes of aristocratic libertines, and even in the view of de Sade’s virtuous wife, this was only an unfortunate miscalculation of effects. But for the many writers of the nineteenth century who were haunted by de Sade’s image, aphrodisiacs, and cantharides in particular, were the very substance of his influence. The diabolical marquis could thus be blamed (or credited) for disseminating through France, and thence through Europe, the black substance of poisonous desire.
The connection between sexual excitement and the risk of death by poison is made, for example, in Alfred de Musset’s Gamiani, ou deux nuits d’exce`s (1833). Cantharides is used there as a stimulant, along with others, during an orgy involving a group of nuns. But the story’s conclusion goes beyond this, as Gamiani,
desperately seeking a remedy for chronically unsatisfied desire, brings about her own end with a
‘‘burning poison’’ which causes her to die in a violent spasm of pleasure. In the course of the
nineteenth century, the role of aphrodisiacs in French erotic stories evolved further.
Toward the end of the century, there was an increasing preoccupation with links between sexuality
and illness, and many novels on the generic borders of erotic literature managed to represent
desire and pleasure while also expressing anxiety about their effects on the characters’ health.
There were more drastic venereal health concerns in the late nineteenth century, most notably the
widespread presence of syphilis. But everyday erotic literature paid great attention to diet. Hot things were now often sourced to the Orient, rather than the Mediterranean. Chili, curry, pepper,
cummin, even peppermint were all said to have the dangerous effect of heightening desire
by gnawing away at the body from within.
Under the effects of spicy diets, characters came to suffer from a desire too acute to be satisfied by any standard forms of pleasure.
Drugs such as ether were also said to contribute to the same effect, producing pathological desire that could result eventually in death.
Certain women, especially of the East, were talked about as being dangerous to European men because their breath, their touch, their perfume, their very substance were thought to be erotically contagious. For fearful and excited writers of the fin-de-sie`cle, Oriental women were often seen as walking aphrodisiacs. Even for the anxious and the prurient, there was a thrill in aphrodisiacs, but it was, as literally as possible, the thrill of playing with fire, the intimate thrill of putting fiery substances inside one’s body.
PETER CRYLE

Further Reading
Cryle, Peter. ‘‘The Substance of Desire: Towards a Thematic History of the Aphrodisiac in Nineteenth-
Century French Fiction,’’ Nottingham French Studies 37/1 (Spring 1998): 27–49.
Lever, Maurice. Donatien Alphonse Franc¸ois marquis de Sade. Paris: Fayard, 1991.
Taberner, Peter V. Aphrodisiacs: The Science and the Myth. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press, 1985.
Novels of the nineteenth century in which aphrodisiacs play a role include:
Belot, Adolphe. Mademoiselle Giraud, ma femme. Paris: Dentu, 1870.
Besse, Louis. La Fille de Gamiani: journal d’une prostitue´e. Paris: Albin Michel, 1906.
Dubut de Laforest, Jean-Louis. ‘‘Mademoiselle Tantale,’’ in Pathologie sociale. Paris: Dupont, 1897.
Duo, Pierre. Inassouvie. Paris: Brossier, 1889.
Joze, Victor. La Cantharide. Paris: Fort, c.1900.
Maizeroy, Rene´. Deux Amies. Paris: Havard, 1885.
Musset, Alfred de. ‘‘Gamiani, ou deux nuits d’exce`s,’’ in L’Erotisme romantique, edited by J.-J. Pauvert. Paris: Carrere, 1984.
Reschal, Antonin. Le Journal d’un amant. Paris: Offenstadt, 1902.


Encyclopedia of erotic literature
Gaëtan Brulotte y John Phillips (ed)
septiembre 2006
Routledge; 1 ed.
ISBN10: 1579584411
ISBN13: 978-1579584412
1616 pág.
11.4 x 8.8 x 4 ", 2 vol.