Monsieur Venus by Rachilde

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.

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ISBN 13	9780873529303
ISBN 10	0873529308
Titre	Monsieur Venus
Auteur	Rachilde
Série	Mla Texts And Translations
État	Non disponible
Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Modern Language Association of America
Année de publication	2004-10-30
Nombre de pages	211
Note de couverture	La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier.
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