Only Son - Hardcover

Audeguy, Stephane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151013292 ISBN 13: 9780151013296

Verlag: Harcourt Publishers,U.S., 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Jean-Jacques Rousseau mentions his older brother Francois only two times in his classic Confessions. In "The Only Son", Stephane Audeguy resurrects Rousseau's forgotten brother in a picaresque tale that brings to life the secret world of eighteenth-century Paris. Instructed at an early age in the philosophy of libertinage by a decadent aristocrat and later apprenticed to a clock maker, Francois is ultimately disowned by his family and flees to Paris' underworld. There he finds work in a brothel that caters to politicians and clergy and begins his personal study of the varieties of sexual desire - and its most arcane proclivities. Audeguy uses the libertine's progress to explore the interplay between the individual and society, much in the tradition of Jean-Jacques, but with a very different emphasis. Bold, erotic, and historically fascinating, "The Only Son", is, in many ways, the anti-Confessions - Francois' own, decidedly different, portrait of human nature.

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STÉPHANE AUDEGUY lives in Paris, where he teaches the history of cinema and arts.

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• Verlag: Harcourt Publishers,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0151013292
• ISBN 13: 9780151013296
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
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