“I know some men get more pleasure out of one Sunday’s church-going than I have ever done in a year’s enjoyment of wine, women, and gambling. I know not how they do it. I should like to be as they are, but I cannot change my nature, and I shall go to my death as I was born.”
Anonymous, Suburban Souls: The Erotic Psychology of a Man and a Maid
Anonymous, Suburban Souls: The Erotic Psychology of a Man and a Maid
"Blue Nude" by Henri Matisse
Everything born in the great cities eventually makes its way to the outer suburbs. Such was the case with the erotic novel Suburban Souls, which was decidedly un-suburban when it was published in 1901. Henri Matisse's Blue Nude also made its debut in the first decade of the 20th Century, in 1907. Both were controversial, and Suburban Souls so much so that it had to be published anonymously and distributed privately. Both would seem astonishingly conventional by the end of the 20th Century (Pablo Picasso having grabbed the Cubist baton suggested by Blue Nude and dashed with it across the finishing line into art history).
Epilogue. Despite its late 20th Century acceptance, does Suburban Souls now run afoul of the 21st Century's #MeToo movement?.
Epilogue. Despite its late 20th Century acceptance, does Suburban Souls now run afoul of the 21st Century's #MeToo movement?.
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