The Carnal Prayer Mat
Language: English
Published by Ballantine Books, 1990
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- Title
- The Carnal Prayer Mat
- Author
- Li Yu
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Publication year
- 1990
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0345365089
- ISBN 13
- 9780345365088
A seventeenth century erotic novel traces the sexual adventures of Vesperus, a handsome Chinese scholar, who decides to experience the world before taking vows as a Zen monk
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In the three hundred years since its initial publication, Li Yu's The Carnal Prayer Mat has been widely read in China, where it is recognized as a benchmark of erotic literature and currently enjoys the distinction of being a banned-in-Beijing classic. The story centers on Scholar Vesperus, a handsome orphan and student of Zen. Before taking his monastic vows, Vesperus embarks on a career of licentiousness. His adventures as "hero of the boudoir, a champion of sex" take both comic and calamitous turns, until eventually he attains "enlightenment on the carnal prayer mat".
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