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The little black book of Grisélidis Réal : days and nights of an anarchist whore / Jean-Luc Hennig ; translated by Ariana Reines.

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The little black book of Grisélidis Réal : days and nights of an anarchist whore / Jean-Luc Hennig ; translated by Ariana Reines.
Author
Hennig, Jean-Luc.
Publication
Los Angeles, CA : Semiotext(e) ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by the MIT Press, c2009.

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Reines, Ariana
Description
183 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
"This volume includes lengthy dialogues from 1979-1981 with Real conducted by journalist and author Jean-Luc Henning, in which she eloquently discusses the theoretical implications of sex-positive whoring and relates her experiences both inside and outside the profession: from her lengthy love affair with the "Berber" to such "psychological" and "special" clients as the "moldy rhinoceros." The "Little Black Book" that rounds out this book is drawn from the logs in which Real kept track of her many clients, from "Pedro, hilarious fat Spaniard, devoted, simple, honest, fat peasant face, 70F" to "Pierre 8 (from Basel), blue eyes, fifties, slightly balding, cultivated, sweet-violent...licks my finger after I remove it from his anus...100-400F." It is a journal that not only chronicles Real's working life, but offers a clinically direct, investigative sociological analysis of the sexual subcultures of her time." --Book Jacket.
Series Statement
Semiotext(e) native agents series
Uniform Title
  • Grisélidis, courtisane. English
  • Semiotext(e) native agents series.
Alternative Title
Grisélidis, courtisane.
Subject
  • Réal, Grisélidis, 1929-2005 > Interviews
  • Prostitution > Switzerland
Genre/Form
Interviews
Note
  • First published in French in 1981.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Translator's Note / Ariana Reines -- The Way Blacks Dance / Grisélidis Réal -- Your Name, Grisélidis / Jean-Luc Henning -- 1. The Invisible Equator: Interviews with Grisélidis -- 2. Little Black Book.
ISBN
  • 9781584350781
  • 1584350784
OCLC
  • 319497321
  • SCSB-11374622
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library