Description
When the rich and well-connected Raoule de Venerande becomes enamoured of Jacques Silvert, a poor young man who makes artificial flowers for a living, she turns him into her mistress and eventually into her wife. Raoule's suitor, a cigar-smoking former hussar officer, becomes an accomplice in the complications that ensue.
A writer and cultural arbiter of a salon in France from the early 1880s until 1930, Rachilde (Marguerite Eymery) won celebrity with this scandalously decadent novel. An inversion of the Pygmalion story, the book was judged to be pornographic, and a Belgian court sentenced its author (in absentia) to two years in prison. Verlaine congratulated Rachilde on the invention of a new vice.
Reviews
"The novel may still outrage some readers, but it has become a key text for students of fin de siecle literature, women writers, and gender studies." - English Showalter
Book Information
ISBN 9780873529303
Author Rachilde
Format Paperback
Page Count 211
Imprint Modern Language Association of America
Publisher Modern Language Association of America
Weight(grams) 320g
A writer and cultural arbiter of a salon in France from the early 1880s until 1930, Rachilde (Marguerite Eymery) won celebrity with this scandalously decadent novel. An inversion of the Pygmalion story, the book was judged to be pornographic, and a Belgian court sentenced its author (in absentia) to two years in prison. Verlaine congratulated Rachilde on the invention of a new vice.
Reviews
"The novel may still outrage some readers, but it has become a key text for students of fin de siecle literature, women writers, and gender studies." - English Showalter
Book Information
ISBN 9780873529303
Author Rachilde
Format Paperback
Page Count 211
Imprint Modern Language Association of America
Publisher Modern Language Association of America
Weight(grams) 320g
