Hi Everyone,
In this discussion I would like to speak briefly about the publishing giants of Paris in the early 1900's, Obelisk & Olympia Press.
Obelisk Press was created by Jack Kehane, the man that brought us treasures like "The Tropic of Cancer" and the erotic stories of Anais Anin. Jack also published James Joyce when other publishing houses refused to print his risqué stories. The Obelisk Press built a reputation for printing works that other companies were too scared to touch. At that time erotica was very taboo and mostly kept underground.
Jack had a son called Maurice who decided to take his mothers name Girodias, Maurice controlled the Olympia Press and brought us the wonderful stories from Lolita to The Gingerman and Candy to Story of O. Girodias, although a brave publisher, wasn't a great businessman his "easy-going" view of paying (or not paying) his writers eventually caused the failure of his fantastic empire, but not before he gave the world a number of, now famous, erotic literature.
Let me know your thoughts?
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