Les Exploits d’un jeune Don Juan

Young Roger dreams only of girls and women, seduction, abandonment and embraces, smells and abundant forms…  The teenager kisses, caresses and seduces everything that wears petticoats, stopping at nothing to satisfy his desires and complete his apprenticeship in love.

Obscene and ironic, Les Exploits d’un jeune Don Juan is a short erotic and pornographic novel written by Apollinaire around 1910. In the vein of another of his great novels that it echoes, Les Onze Mille Verges, the writer presents a text that is provocative to excess. However, the novel is not said to be Apollinaire’s creation but a translation from a German text. A raw, satirical text by Apollinaire, himself a great reader of Sade.