I posted on Lithchat a link to a Cafe Blogas article from today about an old book of Lithuanian erotica that includes a quick excerpt (with my translation into English) that simply has to be read to be believed.
It’s not that the language is forced (though perhaps it is simplistic). It’s that the topic and the consequences of the sex and so on are so… not sexy. Amazing. I don’t know. Maybe Lithuanians 100 years ago (or whenever) were really wound up by this sort of thing.
Tags: erotica, language, overdetermination, religion
March 17th, 2009 at 15:01
you mean coitus?