Michel Vignard's 'Que fabriquent donc les hommes ensemble?' Explores Male Desire in Literature

Michel Vignard has published an erotic anthology titled 'Que fabriquent donc les hommes ensemble?' with La Musardine. The book takes its title from a question posed by Michel Foucault shortly before his death. The cover features an illustration by Aubrey Beardsley depicting three priapic males with large turgescent organs. Vignard's project aims to survey the literary and historical field as broadly as possible, rejecting reduction to a single genre. The anthology includes over five hundred large-format pages of texts drawn from novels, short stories, tales, poems, as well as intimate journals, correspondence, confessions, and memoirs. Vignard argues that while much attention has been paid to the 'dark continent' of female sexuality since Freud, male desire has been comparatively neglected. His selection reveals a vast and inexhaustible range of male desire. The book is not limited to homosexual literature. Jacques Henric contributes a preface noting that women are present between the lines.