Monsieur Vénus : a materialist novel / Rachilde ; translated by Melanie Hawthorne after the 1929 translation by Madeleine Boyd ; introduced and annotated by Melanie Hawthorne and Liz Constable.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rachilde, 1860-1953.

Contributor:

Hawthorne, Melanie.

Boyd, Madeleine.

Constable, Liz.

Series:

Texts and translations. Translations ; 15.

Texts and translations. Translations ; 15

Standardized Title:

Monsieur Vénus. English

Language:

English

French

Physical Description:

xliii, 211 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2004.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Principal Works by Rachilde xxxvii

Monsieur Venus: A Materialist Novel 1.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-211).

ISBN:

0873529308

OCLC:

56329463