7 cult erotic novels for a languid evening

"Love affair" - many people associate this phrase exclusively with low-grade books, where a muscular macho and a languid beauty are passionately embracing on the cover. But erotic prose appeared a long time ago, and there are many examples of fine literature in this genre. We introduce you to the best examples of adult prose that will dispel your boredom on a rainy evening.

Leo Tolstoy once wrote about this novel:

Probably, it was this "anti-advertising" that attracted so much attention to this work. Nowadays, "Dear Friend" is considered a classic of erotic prose. At the same time, from the point of view of a modern person, it is written in a touching and almost innocent manner.

The novel is about a young man named Georges Duroy, who lives in Paris and dreams of big money and a brilliant career. But his only talent is the ability to win the hearts of ladies. Which, in fact, is what he does throughout the novel.

You don't need to be a genius to guess that in the cult novel of the forefather of masochism, it will be about female domination.

The role of Christian Grey is played by Wanda von Dunaeva — a cruel beauty dressed in furs and velvet. It is her artist Severin von Kusimsky who persuades her to become his mistress and offers to treat him like a real slave.

The novel is largely autobiographical, so Sacher-Masoch relied on his own experience of living together with Aurora von Rumslin, who wrote under the pseudonym "Wanda von Dunaeva".

In this novel you will not find a graphic description of sex, and yet it surprises with its frankness.

Georges Bataille is a French writer and philosopher, interested in politics, religion, mysticism and, of course, eros.

Some of his publications were banned for a long time, and his first novel, The Story of the Eye, written under the pseudonym Lord Osh, was considered pure pornography. Much later, critics and researchers found a philosophical subtext and emotional depth in the novel "double bottom".

The novel describes in great detail and frankly the emerging sexuality of two teenagers. It must be admitted that reading is not for the bashful — the graphic nature of the work sometimes causes shock.

The novel by the French writer Anais Nin was published after her death, almost forty years after it was written. It contains 15 stories about passion and sex.

Writer Henry Miller, a friend and lover of Anais Nin, described this book as "poetic and pornographic, sensual and sensitive", it is a "shameless beautiful book". "Delta" is included in the list of the best works of this genre.

This is the first novel of the "poet of the Parisian bottom" by Jean Genet, written in prison, where the author of the work was imprisoned for stealing from a bookstore.

Jean Genet wrote down his erotic fantasies, which were not intended for a wide audience at that time, on brown paper, which was given to prisoners in prison to make boxes out of it.

The central character of the novel is a young prostitute Divina, who, dying of tuberculosis in a cell, describes his life. Later, the novel was edited by Genet himself, who removed the most shocking episodes from there.

Compared to this novel, Shades of Grey will seem like a Disney cartoon to you.

The work came from the pen of the French writer Dominique Orie, who only 4 years before her own death confessed that she was its author.

The novel is about a young woman whose name is written throughout the text as "O".

O gets into the castle of Ruasi - a place that belongs to a secret society of sadomasochists.

Here men rule over women. On the very first evening, O goes through an initiation ceremony, surrendering to four masked men.

Oh strongly protests against this state of affairs, but tolerates all the mockery of himself for the sake of his beloved Rene.

The life of the author of one of the most famous erotic novels of the XX century, whose adaptation went down in history as a classic of erotic cinema, and itself resembled a novel.

Mariah Bibid was considered the official author of "Emmanueli" for a long time. She was born into a noble Thai family. The girl was sent to study in Switzerland, where she met her future husband, French diplomat Louis-Jacques Rolle-Andrian, at the age of 16. They say it was love at first sight.

The erotic detective story "Emmanuel" was first published in France in 1959, without attribution. The novel is considered to be somewhat autobiographical. Later it turned out that the real author of it was Louis-Jacques, and not his wife at all.

The novel begins with a description of how 19-year-old Emmanuelle, the wife of a French engineer, flies by plane to Bangkok, heading to her husband. In the same plane, she is given to fellow travelers.