Monsieur Venus
Monsieur Venus
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Summary
In this key text from the French decadent movement, an aristocratic young woman becomes enamoured of a young man who makes artificial flowers for a living.
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Monsieur Venus by Rachilde
When the rich and well-connected Raoule de Vénérande 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.
“The novel may still outrage some readers, but it has become a key text for students of fin de siècle literature, women writers, and gender studies” - English Showalter
Liz Constable teaches French at the University of California, Davis. Dennis Denisoff teaches English at the University of Waterloo. Matthew Potolsky teaches literature at Harvard University.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780873529303 |
| ISBN 10 | 0873529308 |
| Title | Monsieur Venus |
| Author | Rachilde |
| Series | Mla Texts And Translations |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Modern Language Association of America |
| Year published | 2004-10-30 |
| Number of pages | 211 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |