“If I held you in bed, I would prove my passion twenty times over. May the eleven thousand virgins or even the eleven thousand rods punish me if I am lying!” Vibescu from Bucharest has a big appetite, and it seems that in Paris the women have light thighs. Just enough to arouse the interest of our prince, who embarks on a frenetic journey of ‘infernal joy’ and licentious combinations, satire and subversion…
Les onze mille verges (The Eleven Thousand Rods) caused a scandal when it was published in 1907. Openly crude and provocative, it has often been compared to the works of Sade. Its ferocious irony and explicit scenes make it a major erotic tale, unclassifiable and disturbing …
Anyone who has not read Les Onze Mille Verges has never really read Apollinaire. ‘All of Apollinaire is there,’ with his predilection for certain words, his highly personal punctuation, his landscapes and his deep-seated obsessions, the study of which should shed light on a psychoanalytical reading of the poet’s works. In this respect, Les Onze Mille Verges is one of the most revealing books ever written.
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