Handbook of civility for the little girls with the use of the houses of education

The Manuel of civility for the little girls with the use of the houses of education is a literary work erotic of Pierre Louÿs, written in 1917 and published in a posthumous way (and anonymity) in 1927.

It is presented in the form of a parody of the rigorous handbooks of education of the time, and is thus composed of short councils (generally a sentence or two) gathered in topics: “At the house”, “Duties towards your mother”, “classifies some”, etc

The tone of the work is sharp, even concise, the style particularly believed and chatoyant. Pierre Louÿs uses readily of irony to evoke the cheap loves of the perverse young girls, and this relative distance enables him to despize of any moral censure (inceste, pedophilia…). In fact, one is far from the invaluable refinement of the Chansons of Bilitis for example, and the Manuel of civility is undoubtedly the work most subversive of Louÿs, true attack in rule against the middle-class puritanism of the Belle Time.

As illustration, the “Glossary” which opens the work composes of this warning:

“We considered to be useless to explain the words: idiot, slit, moniche, mound, fuck, tail, bollard, testicle, foutre (verb), foutre (subst.), to bandage, shake, suck, lick, pump, kiss, fuck, thread, enconner, to fuck up the ass, discharge, godmiché, gougnotte, pod, sixty-nine, iron ore, mimi, whore, bordel.
These words are familiar with all the little girls. ”

The edition of the work published at Librio is marked “for informed readers”.

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