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Irresistibly charming or shamelessly deceitful, remarkably persuasive or uselessly verbose, everything one loves to hate--or hates to love--about "French lovers" and their self-styled reputation can be traced to eighteenth-century libertine novels. Obsessed with strategies of seduction, speculating endlessly about the motives and goals of lovers, the idle aristocrats who populate these novels are exclusively preoccupied with their erotic life. Deprived of other battlefields to fulfill their thirst for glory, libertine noblemen seek to conquer the women of their class without falling into the trap of love, while their female prey attempt to enjoy the pleasures of love without sacrificing their honor. Yet, despite the licentious mores of the declining Old Regime, men and women are still expected to pay lip service to an austere code of morals. Since they are constantly asked to denounce their own practices, their erotic war games are governed by a double constraint: whatever they feel or intend, the heroes of libertine literature can neither say what they mean nor mean what they say. <p> <i>The Libertine Reader</i> includes all the varieties of libertine strategies: from the successf

Author

Michel Feher

Publisher

New York: Zone Books ; Cambridge, Mass.: Distributed by MIT Press

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780942299427

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Romance, Fiction

Rating

4.16 / 5 (29 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14