Unprecedented literary phenomenon, with nearly 40 million books sold in a few months, "The Fifty Shades of Grey", erotic novel with shades of sadomasochism, written by a housewife for 49 years, is about to overcome all the world records editorial.
"Never before has a book intended for an adult audience had sold so much and so fast," said Random House, publisher of the book in English. For now, only seven volumes of Harry Potter surpass the story of Anastasia and Christian Steele Grey, the lustful couple Trilogy EL James. Like JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter saga, EL James (whose given name is Erika Mitchell), is British.
But until now nobody had heard of this television executive, inventor of a new literary genre, the novel hybrid between sweet and eroticism without taboos.
The protagonist of the story, Christian Grey, an enigmatic billionaire is that, according to the book says, "owes nothing to the David of Michelangelo." The character could have come from an ordinary novel, if he did not hit on young virgin Anastasia shortly after the meet and before asking her to embody a "dominant-submissive" with references to whips and handcuffs sadomasochistic paraphernalia.
The 1,500-page trilogy that begins with "The Fifty Shades of Grey" and follows with "The Fifty Shadows" and "The Fifty Most Dark Shadows," leads the reader to discover the fifty shades of gray of the tormented soul of a multimillionaire. A goal that is interrupted every ten pages with the "explosion of the senses" of the protagonists in games erotic high voltage, with great detail.
EL James, who said he was inspired by "Twilight." The author published excerpts of his trilogy on a page of American fans of this series for teens, before editing the first volume as electronic book in May 2011. Very quickly, hundreds of thousands of people have downloaded the volumes on the Internet.
In five months here, "The Fifty Shades of Grey" sells like hotcakes. There were 31 million copies in English, 20 million in the United States, where some bookstores at first refused the book, considering it "inadequate." A total of 43 countries bought the rights, told AFP the author's agent, Valerie Hoskins.
"The Fifty Shades of Grey" have conversations "unlikely," a plot "weak" and "annoying repetitions," condemns the newspaper "The Guardian" as most critics.
However, many readers do not expect a masterpiece and are especially pleased to find this type of literature in bookstores and not on the shelves of dark "fri shops." "I can not drop the book," said the young British Janine. "Despite the terrible style, I can not stop reading!" Said another reader. "It's an old story of love, but with lots of sex," observed a third, among the 4,500 people who submitted their views to the Amazon site in the UK.
"What surprised us was seeing people who never buy books, buy this, said Sandon, Random House. Polemics aside, EL James is already working on the next book, a secret guarded home in west London that author shares with her husband for over twenty years and two teenage children.
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