A very amusing (and imperturbably retrograde) imitation of the
classical oriental love manual, from a celebrated contemporary
Greek novelist (A Report of a Murder, 1995, not reviewed) whose
casual sexism is obviously calculated to elicit strong reaction.
Its straightforward categorization of the "five types of women"
available for seduction will surely offend; then again, where else
are you likely to learn how "the spotted eels of the South Seas"
laboriously copulate? Advice on sexual strategies and positions is
helpfully interspersed throughout by an ingenuous narrator whose
grave and reverend, and studiously circumlocutious, lewdness
nostalgically evokes the worlds, and words, of Rabelais and
Boccaccio. Urbane, provocative, and highly (as well as lowly)
entertaining. (Kirkus Reviews)
Yorgi Yatromanolakis is a professor of ancie nt Greek, and is
regarded as one of Greece''s most important 20th century novelists.
His third novel, The History of a Ve ndetta, was awarded the First
Greek National Prize for Liter ature '
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