CORRUPTION

Continental Classics, 1968. Paperback. Light shelfwear. Very good. 160 pp. A pornographic novel. Introduction by Allan Saunders, MA. The text of the main story appears in a different typeface, which suggests that this is a photo-reprint of a previously published work, quite likely French in origin. Saunders notes: "'Corruption' is another of the recently liberated 'avant-garde' novels written and published abroad, which were arbitraily classified as obscene and banned in Paris and London.... Among the sexual aberratiions and perversions described with complete frankness are rape, copulation between humans and animals, necrophilia or intercourse with corpses and host of other psychological curiousa... Peter Finchley.. alos won wide notoriety when he confessed that the use of hallucinogens such as peyote, marijuana and LSD were of considerable help to him as a writer." The text itself begins: "The village nestled against the rocky coastline. Truly a wooden sign-post, tilting its frame at the beginning of the one and only street, informed you that you were entering Campobianco [...]. CC128.