BANNED is a collection of writings that span over six centuries of Western literature. The collection demonstrates the absurdity of literary censorship throughout the ages. From the days of Boccaccio to our own time, the censor has busied himself emasculating and destroying whatever displeased him.
In BANNED you will find a selection from the Marquis de Sade’s Juliette, as well as one of the more famous episodes from Casanova’s Memoirs. The nineteenth century selections include such characteristic works as Tolstoy’s
demonic Kreutzer Sonata and Wilde’s frenetic Salome.
Among contemporary writers will be found outstanding selections from such writers as Henry Miller, Theodore Dreiser, Alberto Moravia, William Burroughs, Aldous Huxley and Jean-Paul Sartre.
Now, for the first time anywhere you may read the outstanding work of twelve great. Authors who have one thing in common – sometime, somewhere, they were BANNED.
Here are 12 selections from the works of some of the greatest-and most viciously attacked-writers of all time: the Marquis de Sade, who spent much of his life in prison; Oscar Wilde, whose morals were pilloried at a public trial;
Leo Tolstoy, who was assailed as a “sexual and moral pervert” for writing The Kreutzer Sonata.
Yet these writers-and the others included in this volume-were writing of life as they honestly saw it. Whether it is William Burroughs describing the self-consuming hell of drug addiction,
Henry Miller celebrating the carnal de- sires of the body, or Alberto Moravia sketching pathos in the life of a shabby prostitute- each of these writers reveals in his work a searching desire for truth, naked and unashamed.
In BANNED, readers will find some of the most daring and unforgettable writing ever assembled in a single volume.
CONTENTS
- Â THE DECAMERON- Giovanni Boccaccio
- THE MEMOIRS OF CASANOVA
- Â JULIETTE- the Marquis de Sade.
- “The Danger of Being Too Innocent” from DROLL STORIES-Honoré de Balzac
- THE KREUTZER SONATA- Count Leo Tolstoy SALOMÉ Oscar Wilde
- Â THE “GENIUS”- Theodore Dreiser
- “The Tailor Shop”-Henry Miller
- EYELESS IN GAZA- Aldous Huxley
- “Erostratus”-Jean Paul Sartre
- “Two Prostitutes”-Alberto Moravia ….
- Â THE NAKED LUNCH- William Burroughs
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