Le Supplice d'une queue

the long version

This important and explicit gay novel about the love between two men appeared anonymously in 1931 in a small edition of only 90 numbered copies. The author, a close friend of André Gide, lived in Carcasonne for most of his life and published several other books of poetry, but this work is his rarest and most explicit. Published by the famed publisher of erotic texts, René Bonnel, and with an explicit engraved frontispiece by the Catalan artist Pere Créixams, the work has been described as one of the great treasures of erotic literature.