Eleven Thousand Rods
the Eleven Thousand Rods is a Romance erotic of Guillaume Apollinaire (most known of this author), published in 1907 and simply signed its initial ones (“G.A.”).
He reports the fictitious history of the Rumanian prince Mony Vibescu, in a tour which leads it Bucharest to Paris, then in the whole Europe and finally with Port-Arthur (in China), where he dies whipped by an army corps, thus achieving its destiny to have failed in an oath:
“If I held you in a bed, twenty times of continuation I would prove my passion to you. How the Eleven thousand virgins or even the eleven thousand rods punish me if I lie! ”
The peregrinations of the hero are punctuated notably raw scenes, where Apollinaire explores all the facets of sexuality with an obvious will of eclecticism: alternate Sadism with Masochism, ondinism/Scatophilie with Vampirism, Pedophilia with Gérontophilie, Onanisme with Sexuality of group, Saphisme with Pederasty, etc the writing is alert and the fresh tone, the Humor - black with the need - constantly present, and the whole of the novel releases an impression of “infernal joy”, which finds its apotheosis in the final scene.
One discussed a long time on paternity the text (it forever explicitly asserted), but its attribution with the author of Alcools is not today any more doubts, and the Eleven Thousand Rods appear from now on in good place in complete works of Apollinaire.
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