Salome: & Under the Hill (FORBIDDEN EROTIC CLASSICS)
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SALOME is an evocation of biblical horror in which blasphemies inflame an atmosphere that seethes with a dangerous erotic charge from the very outset. Relentless hypnotic repetitions in the words arranged in fugue cadences lend the proceedings a masturbatory oneiric quality: the tale unfolds with the inexorable acceleration of an orgasmic nightmare. Aubrey Beardsleys UNDER THEeHILL a short work commenced in 1894 but left unfinished at the time of Beardsleys premature demise nonetheless achieves the quintessence of Decadence an evocation of a synaesthetic pleasure dome to rival Huysmans A Rebours. This allied to its extraordinary catalogue of sexual perversions makes it a unique and indispensable text for any who seek the uttermost extremes of the manifest imagination. This joint edition of SALOME and UNDEReTHEeHILL united by twenty of Beardsleys unsurpassable drawings is a timely rehabilitation of these two all-too-often ignored fin-de-siecle texts and constitutes a volume of unadulterated erotic decadence which stands at the pinnacle of the genre.
