by Pierre Louÿs · Club Internacional del Libro · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788474612806
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«Afrodita» is the erotic novel by Pierre Louÿs, published by Club Internacional del Libro in paperback (208 pages, in Spanish).
The novel is set in Alexandria in the 1st century BC and tells of the passion of Demetrios, a renowned artist and lover of Queen Berenice, for Chrysis, a courtesan from Galilee famous for her beauty. Desire and sensuality unfold in a plot of refined eroticism in the courtly world of Ptolemaic Egypt.
The 1991 edition belongs to the collection Grandes genios de la literatura universal, number 42. The novel was originally published in 1896.
Recommended for readers of historical and romantic fiction, as well as for those who appreciate classical eroticism and 19th-century French literature.
Pierre-Félix Louÿs was a Belgian poet and writer, most renowned for lesbian and classical themes in some of his writings. He is known as a writer who sought to "express pagan sensuality with stylistic perfection". He was made first a Chevalier and then an Officer of the Légion d'honneur for his contributions to French literature.
