| Monsieur Vénus: Roman Matérialiste Contributor(s): Rachilde (Author), Hawthorne, Melanie (Editor), Constable, Liz (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0873529294 ISBN-13: 9780873529297 Publisher: Modern Language Association of America OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Language: French Published: October 2004 Annotation: When the rich and well-connected Raoule de Venerande becomes enamored 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. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2004019304 |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5.51" W x 8.52" (0.71 lbs) 211 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
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| Publisher Description: When the rich and well-connected Raoule de V n rande becomes enamored 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Constable, Liz: - Liz Constable is Associate Professor in the Women and Gender Studies program at UC Davis. Her primary research areas focus on late nineteenth-century and twentieth century French and Francophone Cultural Studies and Film. She has published widely in these areas, including articles on Simone de Beauvoir and French women decadent writers.Hawthorne, Melanie: - Melanie Hawthorne is Professor of French at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature, with special emphasis on prose fiction of the �Decadent� period and on women writers. |