Monsieur Vénus : roman matérialiste / Rachilde ; edited and introduced by Melanie Hawthorne and Liz Constable.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rachilde, 1860-1953.

Contributor:

Hawthorne, Melanie.

Constable, Liz.

Series:

Texts and translations. Texts 1079-252X

Texts and translations. Texts, 1079-252X

Language:

English

French

Genre:

Novels.

Physical Description:

xliii, 212 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2004.

Language Note:

Text in French, with introductory and critical matter in English.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxii-xxxvi).

ISBN:

0873529294

OCLC:

56329480