False memories Count Mirabeau novel in The Libertine quality trace the intense life of a seducer who, I left the aristocracy and full of cynicism, will use his amatory powers to get money; the irony that the author provides the reader away to the story of that character dedicated to the amatory predation. As Don Juan, seeks pleasure at any price to become an example of a situation just described in the literature of the time: male prostitution. The narrative ability Mirabeau puts the focus especially on specific episodes, illuminating such an intensive way they suggest and show in detail a series of moments of extreme pleasure, without denying the language actually used eroticism or make taboo.
Written in the prison of Vincennes, Mirabeau tried, through his character, persuade, amuse, surprise, provoke, using an energetic prose, full of color, which later would serve to develop ...read more
