Eros - Hardcover
Half memoir & half novel, without apology or embarrassment, Eros explores the forms & meaning of physical passion in a man s life. A huge bestseller in Bevilacqua s native Italy, Eros relates his own encounters with love, describes women he has known, passes on stories he has been told, & dramatizes the experiences of lovers in the Parma of his childhood & the city of Rome, where he now works & lives. He knows how to bring to life a women s body, a situation or even something as slight as a brief anecdote, making it real & unforgettable. Tells about the stations of an education on sexual morality through the acceptance of pleasure.
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Language Notes:
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Italian
From Kirkus Reviews:
Original Language: Italian
An odd mixture of touchy-feely meditation and clinical speculation on eros and its many expressions. A bestseller in Italy, Eros presents Bevilacqua as the archetypal ``Sensitive Guy,'' appalled by the brutish nature of many men, ever solicitous of his own (many) lovers. ``Eros is not, can never be, as so many men believe, purely penetration. This is profanation. . . . Some men cast off the power contained in their semen in a few minutes. They are blind and deaf to Eros.'' Weaving together autobiographical recollections and reflections inspired by tales that he has been told about lovers past and present, Bevilacqua covers such diverse matters as the most explosive orgasm he ever provoked, the challenges and pleasures of oral sex, his first sexual experience, and the strange connection between sex and death. He recalls amorous games. He muses on voyeurism and masturbation. He offers definitions of various perversions (scopophilia, bestiality) and a variety of pronouncements about the different ways in which men and women experience sexual need. Interspersed with these ingredients are miniature case studies of people altered or devastated by erotic encounters. Although the book is often disarmingly frank and does offer some surprisingly sensitive psychological insight (Bevilacqua observes, for instance, that some women may go through a bisexual phase when male aggression seems particularly threatening), it rambles rather too much. A refreshingly frank discussion of the sexual experience that nevertheless seems finally more talky than stirring. There's light here, but, surprisingly, not much heat. -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherSteerforth Press
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0788154311
- ISBN 13 9780788154317
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages198
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