A Storm and Other Erotica

This compilation of Deforges' short stories is geat. I loved the title novella, The Storm. I had no trouble getting into the mood and found it riveting. But the other 4 short stories are good too. In the last, we have The Truck Driver, which depicts a trio on the road in Italy. Paolo & Natalie do the deed in the confines of his truck cab, with his partner at the wheel. It's wonderful. Anyone who has driven around Italy can identify with this authentic action, even if they haven't been involved in such earthy scenes.

I have become a fan of French Erotica. Having read various books of this kind before, I have come to appreciate the literary and lyrical language of this genre. The Storm is a profound and surreal novella about a young widow's attempt to hold on to her husband. She makes daily visits to his grave and writes him love letters. She begins to fulfill the sexual fantasies her husband shared with her before he died of Cancer. The sexual descriptions are obscene and disturbing and not quite, well, erotic. Mind you, it is one of the most interesting love stories I have ever read.A lot of people have a preconceived notion about erotica: literary pornography. The purpose of these books is not to turn the reader on, but to allow the reader to enter the realm of the profound and deviant world of sexual fantasies. Give it a whirl!