[SAINT-JUST (Louis-Antoine de)]. Organt, poem in twenty song - Lot 233

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[SAINT-JUST (Louis-Antoine de)]. Organt, poem in twenty song - Lot 233
[SAINT-JUST (Louis-Antoine de)]. Organt, poem in twenty songs. Au Vatican [Paris, Demonville], 1789. 2 parts in one volume in-18, olive calf, cold-stamped roulette, ornate smooth spine, red title page, interior roulette, gilt edges (Ducastin). Extremely rare first edition of this licentious poem by Saint-Just, guillotined in 1794. A key poem inspired by Voltaire's La Pucelle, Organt was composed in 1786 in Picpus prison, where Saint-Just had been interned at his mother's request for having stolen jewels and other precious objects. Under the guise of a Carolingian epic, Saint-Just attacks Christian morality and the ancien régime, while exalting physical pleasure: [...] et c'est pourquoi Sornis, amant d'Adelinde, redevient homme après avoir été changé en âne, tout en conserver un sexe d'âne qui lui permet d'utiliser tendrement " des droits d'un âne et des droits d'un amant " (Dictionnaire des œuvres érotiques, p. 374). Copy complete with the rare 4-page engraved key to the characters, which is often missing. One spine split, another restored.
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