White Stains - Brossura

Crowley, Aleister

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1440416192 ISBN 13: 9781440416194

Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2008

Riassunto

Variations of sodomy, pederasty, bestiality, and necrophilia are interwoven with gleeful blasphemy in this seminal collection of poetry by Aleister Crowley. Inspired by Krafft-Ebing's study of sexual perversity, Psychopathia Sexualis, it purports to be "the literary remains of George Archibald Bishop, a neuropath of the Second Empire." Crowley's infamous first book, White Stains was clandestinely printed in 1898 by Leonard Smithers. Of the one hundred numbered copies that were originally printed, only a handful were spared destruction by Her Majesty's Customs; an outcome which speaks against Crowley's decision to invoke the blessing of the Virgin Mary in his prefatory sonnet. Crowley would go on to establish himself as a leading figure in the Western occult tradition. A drug addict, bisexual, and proponent of sex magick, Crowley's flamboyantly impious lifestyle would lead the tabloid press to crown him "The Wickedest Man in the World."

Su questa edizione

• Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1440416192
• ISBN 13: 9781440416194
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 112