John de St Jorre
Chariots of Flesh
The Paris Olympia Press
By Patrick Kearney, Edited by Angus Carroll
Liverpool University Press 400pp £25 order from our bookshop
It’s hard to imagine now but less than fifty years ago books in much of Western Europe and the United States were routinely confiscated and burned. The bonfires of a resistant Victorian morality consumed the written word, just as heretics were burnt in earlier times and drugs would be incinerated later.
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