Download or read book The Birth of the Body: Russian Erotic Prose of the First Half of the Twentieth Century written by Alexei Lalo and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of Russian erotic writings of 1900 to 1940 consists of texts previously unavailable in English. They all reflect the fascinating, albeit laborious, nature of the "birth of the body" in the Russian literature and culture of the period.