Book description
In this ribald, titillating, exciting book, Marco Vassi exposes the human animal in all its absurdity. He spares no one and nothing in his ironic X‑ray of our exalted obsessions. Capturing the sizzling vitality of our current erotic upheaval while grasping its peculiar pretensions, Vassi creates a gallery of unforgettable…
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Why read it?
1 author picked The Erotic Comedies as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
These daring and profound erotic stories (originally titled "The Carcass of Dreams") imagine various taboo fetishes as existential predicaments. Despite the dark subject matter, some of the stories have an ironic and even satirical tone. They read like fairy tales or horror stories or Kafkaesque parables. The writing style recalls Kafka, Calvino, Poe or Angela Carter. A story or two might offend the reader, but this hard-to-find collection is still worth seeking out.
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