In nearly fifty years of existence, the “Bouquins” collection has carved out a unique place for itself in the publishing world: combining intellectual rigor with freedom of tone and approach, it tirelessly explores all fields of knowledge and creation, often going against the grain of official trends or institutional biases. The chapter that opens today with the launch of “Les Singuliers” aims to further explore this path of curiosity and audacity. Born out of a desire to shed new light on the exceptional “Bouquins” collection and make it available to a new audience, “Les Singuliers” aims to explore the hundreds of thousands of pages published in “Bouquins,” where countless treasures lie, sometimes forgotten, to retain what has always made it successful: little-known classics, unpublished historical or literary essays, critical apparatus of unparalleled richness…
Among the first titles to be published in October, Pierre Louÿs’ Poésie érotique illustrates Bouquins’ desire to explore all areas of literature, even the most transgressive. Taken from the volume containing the author’s complete known erotic works (2012), the text features several hundred poems (including more than 200 previously unpublished works that had never been published before their appearance in Bouquins). It shows how the poet was constantly striving to push the boundaries of erotic writing, in a frenzy that always involved erudition and humor. Jean-Paul Goujon wrote an unpublished preface focusing on Pierre Louÿs’ poetic work for the release of “Singuliers.”
This volume contains: Erotic Poems; La Femme; Le Trophée des vulves légendaires. Nine sonnets on Wagner’s heroines dreamed up at the foot of the Venusberg in August 1891; Cydalise; Erotic Poems; Pastiches and Parodies; La Soliste; Petites Miettes amoureuses; Lyrical Poems; Free Poems; [Unpublished Poems]; Pybrac; Ainsi parlait le sieur de Pybrac.
Other “Singuliers” to be published in October: Le Roi Arthur et la Table ronde. Récits du Moyen Âge; François Rabelais, Pantagruel; Olivier Saillard, Une Histoire de la mode.
