Night in the Afternoon: And Other Erotica

"A short libertine novel . . . It is masterful, from beginning to end, intelligent, and in many passages, very beautiful" (La Quinzaine).

Night in the Afternoon is a breathless, lyrical, and starkly erotic novella of a young woman caught between two lovers. Though she shares a wonderfully tender and loving relationship with her boyfriend Gilles, she is unconsciously lured by a newspaper ad placed by a "masterful man" requesting a "docile" young woman. Answering it, she meets someone she ...