"The Exploits of a Young Don Juan" recounts the sexual coming of age of Roger amidst his entourage of naive and not so naive woman while his father is away on business. And Roger surely plays while the cat is away, possessing a virility and manhood to match, as he seduces those around him into the most compromising scenes and situations with his lascivious will. From the author who brought us "Eleven Thousand Rods", a work banned in France until 1970, Guillame Apollinaire succeeds in emulating the Libertine ideas and doctrines gleaned from the Marquis De Sade. Told in a wonderfully graphic prose that will be sure to shock and entertain, this gem of Edwardian erotic makes a fine addition to any collection of the once-forbidden. The original 1907 manuscript of this work, gifted to Picasso, was one of the artist's most prized possessions.
Author
Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki, known as Guillaume Apollinaire, was a French poet, writer, and art critic born in Italy to a Polish mother. Among the foremost poets of the early 20th century, he is credited with coining the word surrealism and writing one of the earliest works described as surrealist, the play Les Mamelles de Tirésias (1917, later used as the basis for an opera in 1947).
