Monsieur Venus (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Modern Language Association of America
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	MLA Texts and Translations
Release date:	October 2004
First published:	October 2004
Authors:	Rachilde
Editors:	Melanie Hawthorne • Liz Constable
Dimensions:	141 x 216 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	211
ISBN-13:	978-0-87352-930-3
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-87352-930-8
Barcode:	9780873529303

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