Les chansons de Bilitis by Pierre Louÿs

"Les chansons de Bilitis" by Pierre Louÿs is a collection of erotic poetry published in 1894. Louÿs presented these sensual verses as translations from ancient Greek texts by a fictional courtesan named Bilitis, a contemporary of Sappho. The elaborate hoax fooled scholars initially, complete with fabricated archaeological documentation. The 143 prose poems trace Bilitis's life through three stages—from childhood innocence to lesbian love affairs to life as a courtesan. Though exposed as a pseudotranslation, the work gained lasting significance for its sympathetic celebration of lesbian sexuality. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Louÿs, Pierre, 1870-1925
Title Les chansons de Bilitis
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Songs_of_Bilitis fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Chansons_de_Bilitis
Credits Produced by Carlo Traverso, Robert Rowe, Charles Franks
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
HTML version by Chuck Greif.
Reading Level Reading ease score: 90.5 (5th grade). Very easy to read.
Language French
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject French poetry
Subject Lesbians -- Poetry
Category Text
EBook-No. 4708
Release Date
Most Recently Updated Mar 20, 2013
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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