50 Shades of Success - The many shades of Grey: The reason behind the literary phenomenon that shook the world

By Graham Collins

What are the essential ingredients for an erotic novel that revolutionized sales, revitalized a genre that seemed to have been forgotten and created a loyal community of fanatical readers around the world in only two years. Is it porn for housewives or a genre impossible to classify?

• Language: English
• Publisher: MB Cooltura
• Release date: Dec 12, 2014
• ISBN: 9789873788703

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Inhalt

Literary Boom

Sexual Fantasy in Literature

Housewives

Literary Phenomena

The Successful Joke

The Early Story

The Direct Antecedent

The Fan Fiction

The Transmutation

The Distributed Trilogy

What Happens in the Shades?

The Characters

The Tone of the Story

Formal Aspects of Writing

The Bondage

The BDSM

Variations of Female Fantasy

Erotic Generosity

Stallion Quintessential

A Postmodern Werther

Romantic Hero

Balance of Tones

High Points in the Text

Low Points of the Text

The Canons of Literature

A Translation

The Construction of the Efficacy

The Machinery of Marketing

Utilitarian Literature

The Identity

Marriage and Fantasies

Wave of Marital Eroticism

Therapeutic masochism

The Paradox of Submission

Free sexuality

The Female Orgasm

The Violence

Female Controversy

Stimulation

Eroticism

The Demand for Equality

Diversity

Exegesis of the Author

The Imitations

The Consumer Frame

Some Statistics

Balsam for a Deteriorating Situation

The End Before Time

Can Many People Be Mistaken?

Fate

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Literary Boom

It is widely known that the contemporary world is ruled by media impact and the overwhelming force of fame which many times makes it impossible for success and quality to co-exist.

However, a lot of novels that reach immediate success are great and their editions have multiplied in such a way that it seems that almost every home has one. However, quality is not really necessary to succeed. There many other attributes that can make a book become a best-seller.

Fifty Shades of Grey, the revolutionary erotic novel, with sales of over 20 million, has become one of the most sold in history. But that’s not all; it caused a boom in the literary world with a genre that seemed forgotten. It also revived the erotic clubs in London and caused a powerful sensation: the book world started to replicate the erotic formula.

Specialists note that these are some of the ingredients that have contributed to the success of the famous Shades.

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Sexual Fantasy in Literature

In 1977, the mythical erotic Spanish literature collection, The Vertical Smile, was created and directed by Luis García Berlanga with the purpose of reviving a genre considered damned.

At that time, Berlanga proclaimed: "We want to give air to be breathed because the wish is health and especially want to recover the cult