Can I read Jou Pu Tuan: the Prayer Mat of Flesh on EtoBox?

Jou Pu Tuan: the Prayer Mat of Flesh by Richard Martin from the German version by Franz Kuhn is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Jou Pu Tuan: the Prayer Mat of Flesh about?

In the three hundred years since its initial publication, Li Yu's The Carnal Prayer Mat has been widely read in China, where it is recognized as a benchmark of erotic literature and currently enjoys the distinction of being a banned-in-Beijing classic. The story centers on Scholar Vesperus, a handsome orphan and student of Zen. Before taking his monastic vows, Vesperus embarks on a career of licentiousness. His adventures as "hero of the boudoir, a champion of sex" take both comic and calamitous turns, until eventually he attains "enlightenment on the carnal prayer mat."

Author

Richard Martin from the German version by Franz Kuhn

Publisher

New York: Grove Press

Published

1963

Language

EN

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction