Erica Jong a constamment utilisé son art pour donner aux femmes une voix puissante et rationnelle dans la création d'une conscience féministe. Son œuvre, couvrant romans, poésie et essais, explore des thèmes d'identité féminine, de sexualité et de profondes questions philosophiques. Elle fait preuve d'une maîtrise de la fiction historique, la mêlant à des récits personnels et explorant les complexités de la condition humaine. Ses mots possèdent un pouvoir de transformation, offrant inspiration et espoir, comme en témoigne sa portée mondiale.
Après de longs travaux pratiques sur "qu'est-ce que le sexe quand le sentiment n'y est plus?" (p. 92), l'héroïne poursuit son "épopée érotique de la femme libre" (J. Folch-Ribas), découvre l'amant parfait, avant de partir en URSS sur les traces de son grand-père, pour finalement retrouver sa perle rare en Italie. Un roman drôle et outrancier qui se veut le roman de l'après-révolution sexuelle. Succès assuré.
An illustrated exploration of the world of witchcraft in which the author combines fact and fantasy in both poetry and prose.
Plexus is the second volume of the scandalous trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, Henry Miller's major life work Exploring one man's desperate desire for freedom, Plexus is the central volume of Henry Miller's scandalous semi-autobiographical trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion. It finds him in the midst of his stormy marriage to the volatile, duplicitous Mona, and joyfully quitting his dreary job for a hand-to-mouth existence in Brooklyn, as he takes his first steps towards becoming a writer.
Spanning one hundred years, this novel charts the history of four generations of a Jewish family in America.
With her characteristic wit and her refreshing refusal to bow down before political correctness, Erica Jong tackles these and other issues.
Fear of Flying has sold over 26 million copies worldwide. It's a novel that has transcended place and time. Erica Jong is at the forefront of cultural debate and about to grab the zeitgeist by the throat once more.
n the style of the 18th century, the story tells of the tragic and comic fortunes of the brainy and beautiful Fanny in her search for truth.
Erica Jong--like Isadora Wing, her fictional doppelganger--was rich and famous, brainy and beautiful, and soaring high with erotica and marijuana in 1977, the year this book was first published. Erica/Isadora are the perfect literary and libidinous guides for those readers who want to learn about-or just be reminded of-the sheer hedonistic innocence of the time. "How to Save Your Own Life" was praised by "People" for being "shameless, sex-saturated and a joy," and hailed by Anthony Burgess as one of the ninety-nine best novels published in English since 1939.
