The Sexual Life of Catherine M.

In an erotic memoir, the editor of Art Press describes her remarkably active and free sexual life as she honestly and graphically describes her world of physical gratification, the consequences of sex stripped of sentiment, and the fallacies of female sexuality.

Biographies & Memoirs

MILLET, CATHERINE

Arts & Literature

Grove Pr

Jealousy: The Other Life of Catherine M.

Catherine Millet’s best-selling The Sexual Life of Catherine M. was a landmark booka portrait of a sexual life lived without boundaries and without a safety net. Described as eloquent, graphicand sometimes even poignant” by Newsweek, and as [perhaps] one of the most erotic books ever written” by Playboy, it drew international attention for its audacity and the apparently superhuman sangfroid of Millet and her partner, Jacques Henric, with whom she had an extremely public and active open relationship. Millet’s follow-up answers the first book’s implicit question: how do you avoid jealousy? I had love at home,” Millet explains. I sought only pleasure in the world outside.” But one day she discovers a letter in their apartment that makes clear Jacques is seriously involved with someone else. Jealousy details the crisis provoked by this discovery, and Millet’s attempts to reconcile her need for freedom and sexual liberation with the very real heartache that Jacques’s infidelity causes. If The Sexual Life of Catherine M. seemed to disregard emotion, Jealousy is its radical complement: the paradoxical confession of a libertine who discovers that love, in any of its forms, can have a dark side.

Self-Help

Relationships

GROVE PRESS

A national best-seller that was featured on such lists as The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, and Publishers Weekly, The Sexual Life of Catherine M. was the controversial sleeper hit of the year. Since her youth, Catherine Millet, the eminent editor of Art Press, has led an extraordinarily active and free sexual life -- from al fresco encounters in Italy to a gang bang on the edge of the Bois du Boulogne to a high-class orgy at a chichi Parisian restaurant. A graphic account of sex stripped of sentiment, of a life of physical gratification and a relentlessly honest look at the consequences -- both liberating and otherwise -- have created this candid, powerful, and deeply intelligent depiction of unfettered sexuality.

Humor & Entertainment

Catherine Millet's best-selling The Sexual Life of Catherine M. was a landmark book — a portrait of a sexual life lived without boundaries and without a safety net. Described as "eloquent, graphic — and sometimes even poignant" by Newsweek, and as "[perhaps] one of the most erotic books ever written" by Playboy, it drew international attention for its audacity, and the apparently superhuman sangfroid required of Millet and her partner, Jacques Henric, with whom she had an extremely public and active open relationship. Now, Millet's follow-up answers the first book's implicit question: How did you avoid jealousy? "I had love at home," Millet explains, "I sought only pleasure in the world outside." But one day she discovered a letter in their apartment that made it clear that Jacques was seriously involved with someone else. Jealousy details the crisis provoked by this discovery, and Millet's attempts to reconcile her need for freedom and sexual liberation with the very real heartache that Jacques's infidelity caused. If The Sexual Life of Catherine M. seemed to disregard emotion, Jealousy is its radical complement: the paradoxical confession of a libertine who discovers that love, in any of its forms, can have a dark side.

Catherine Millet’s best-selling The Sexual Life of Catherine M. was a landmark booka portrait of a sexual life lived without boundaries and without a safety net. Described as eloquent, graphicand sometimes even poignant” by Newsweek, and as [perhaps] one of the most erotic books ever written” by Playboy, it drew international attention for its audacity and the apparently superhuman sangfroid of Millet and her partner, Jacques Henric, with whom she had an extremely public and active open relationship. Millet’s follow-up answers the first book’s implicit question: how do you avoid jealousy? I had love at home,” Millet explains. I sought only pleasure in the world outside.” But one day she discovers a letter in their apartment that makes clear Jacques is seriously involved with someone else. Jealousy details the crisis provoked by this discovery, and Millet’s attempts to reconcile her need for freedom and sexual liberation with the very real heartache that Jacques’s infidelity causes. If The Sexual Life of Catherine M. seemed to disregard emotion, Jealousy is its radical complement: the paradoxical confession of a libertine who discovers that love, in any of its forms, can have a dark side.

Jealousy: The Other Life of Catherine M

Memoirs

SERPENTS TAIL +

222pages. in8. Broché. Bien connue dans les milieux de l'art, auteur d'essais sur l'art contemporain et de monographies consacrées aux artistes d'aujourd'hui, Catherine Millet entreprend de raconter sa vie sexuelle. Avec une crudité et une clarté dont on reste confondu. Le récit ne suit aucune chronologie, la relation des événements (non datés) et la description des scènes sexuelles étant distribuées selon quatre chapitres: le nombre , l'espace , l'espace replié et détails. La Vie sexuelle de Catherine M. constitue, à coup sûr, l'un des livres les plus audacieux et les plus stupéfiants que la tradition érotique ait donnés à la littérature française.

La Vie sexuelle de Catherine M.

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

SEUIL

Bien connue dans les milieux de l''art, auteur d''essais sur l''art contemporain et de monographies consacrées aux artistes d''aujourd''hui, Catherine Millet entreprend de raconter sa vie sexuelle.Avec une crudité et une clarté dont on reste confondu. Le récit ne suit aucune chronologie, la relation des événements (non datés) et la description des scènes sexuelles étant distribuées selon quatre chapitres : " le nombre ", " l''espace ", " l''espace replié " et " détails ". La Vie sexuelle de Catherine M. constitue, à coup sûr, l''un des livres les plus audacieux et les plus stupéfiants que la tradition érotique ait donnés à la littérature française.

LA Vie Sexuelle De Catherine M. (French Edition)

Erotica

POINTS

Literary

L'Art contemporain en France

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Flammarion

L'art contemporain

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