Dirty Books: Erotic Fiction and the Avant-Garde in Mid-Century Paris and New York

by Barry Reay

An intimate history of the pornographic publisher behind some of the greatest works of the twentieth-century avant-garde.

From the 1930s to the 1970s, in New York and in Paris, daring publishers and writers were producing banned pornographic literature.

The authors of the books were young, impecunious writers, poets and artists. Most of them wrote to survive, but some relished the freedom to experiment that anonymity provided - men...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526181460
• ISBN13: 9781526181466
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 312 Pages