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Aphrodite

✍ Scribed by Pierre Louÿs


Book ID
112308663
Publisher
Éditions Albin Michel
Year
2014
Tongue
French
Weight
137 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9782226339928

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


Le personnage féminin qui occupe la première place dans le roman qu'on va feuilleter est une courtisane antique, mais, que le lecteur se rassure : elle ne se convertira pas.
Elle ne sera aimée ni par un moine, ni par un prophète, ni par un Dieu. Dans la littérature actuelle, c'est une originalité.
Courtisane, elle le sera avec la franchise, l'ardeur et aussi la fierté de tout être humain qui a vocation et qui tient dans la société une place librement choisie ; elle aura l'ambition de s'élever au plus haut point ; elle n'imaginera même pas que sa vie ait besoin d'excuse ou de mystère : ceci demande à être expliqué.
Jusqu'à ce jour, les écrivains modernes qui se sont adressés à un public moins prévenu que celui des jeunes filles et des jeunes normaliens ont usé d'un stratagème laborieux dont l'hypocrisie me déplaît: "J'ai peint la volupté telle qu'elle est, disent-ils, afin d'exalter la vertu". En tête d'un roman dont l'intrigue se déroule à Alexandrie, je me refuse absolument à commettre cet anachronisme.

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