The Torture Garden
A France, European Literature, Erotica book. Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when...
Following the twin trails of desire and depravity to a shocking, sadistic paradise—a garden in China where torture is practiced as an art form—a dissolute Frenchman discovers the true depths of degradation beyond his prior bourgeois imaginings. Entranced by a resolute Englishwoman whose capacity for debauchery knows no bounds, he capitulates to her every whim amid an ecstatic yet tormenting incursion of visions, scents, caresses, pleasures, horrors, and fantastic atrocities. The Torture Garden is exceptional for its detailed descriptions of sexual euphoria and exquisite torture, its political critique of government corruption and bureaucracy, and its revolutionary portrait of a woman, which challenges even contemporary models of feminine authority. This is one of the most truly original works ever imagined. Beyond providing a richly poetic experience, it will stimulate anyone interested in the always-contemporary problem of the limits of experience and sensation. As part of the continuing struggle...
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- Pages: 175 pages
- ISBN: 9780965104265 / 965104265
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Monsters, monsters! But there are no monsters! What you call monsters are superior forms, or forms beyond your understanding. Aren't the gods monsters? Isn't a man of genius a monster, like a tiger or a spider, like all individuals who live beyond social lies, in the dazzling and divine immortality of things? Why, I too then-am a monster! Octave Mirbeau, Torture Garden // For to arrive somewhere means to die! Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden // Woman possesses the cosmic force of an element, an invincible force of destruction, like nature's. She is, in herself alone, all nature! Being the matrix of life, she is by that very fact the matrix of death - since it is from death that life is perpetually reborn, and since to annihilate death would be to kill life at its only fertile source. Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden //
Blood from blossoms, blossoms from blood, les fleurs du mal, terrible and exquisite sensations. Vicious, grotesque, fleetingly beautiful, then again utterly abject. Necessary and unnecessary. I'm startled, both by the fountaining bile of the book, and that any can claim this has been dulled by time into quaintness.Murder is the very... This is the single-most disturbing book I have read to date and still find fascinating. It's about a young Frenchman attempting to find himself (via economic success) in colonial China and the frightening English femme fatale he meets. Read it! My LJ bookclub book for March. Not an easy read, but a thought-provoking one. I believe the most disturbing parts, for me at any rate, were not the graphic scenes, but just how many truths about human nature are hidden (or not hidden) in the social commentary. I can't even imagine what stir this book must have caused when originally...
