A Filthy Letter is now available from Black Scat Books!
Théophile Gautier (1811-1872) was a novelist and poet, one of the champions of Romanticism. In 1850, he and his friend Louis de Cormenin visited Italy, so he wrote his friends back home a letter about their adventures. The result was a rollicking “filthy letter,” packed with jokes, slang, obsolete words, literary allusions, puns, alliterations, neologisms, Spoonerisms, verses, outrageous metaphors, and Rabelaisian lists. It was published privately in 1890, and became a clandestine classic.
But you can read it now, translated, introduced, and annotated by Doug Skinner, and available on Amazon!
4 responses so far ↓
1 Mamie Caton // Mar 25, 2024 at 8:53 pm
It’s quite…filthy! Lovely read on an early spring evening.
2 Doug // Mar 26, 2024 at 6:35 pm
The reader is warned about the filth on the cover.
3 Mamie // Apr 14, 2024 at 1:04 pm
That’s true!
4 Doug // Apr 14, 2024 at 3:29 pm
Reader beware!