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EAN : 9782359053654
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 240
Size : 140 x 225 mm
Rachilde, a Man of Letters

Release date : 18/08/2022
Facing a misogynous society censorship
1884. High Parisian society is in turmoil. A 24-year old female novelist just published a scandalous book, full of cruelty and perversion, based on genders confusion. This author is Rachilde, a young woman who left her native countryside supported by Victor Hugo.
She took with her an ill mother and the...
1884. High Parisian society is in turmoil. A 24-year old female novelist just published a scandalous book, full of cruelty and perversion, based on genders confusion. This author is Rachilde, a young woman who left her native countryside supported by Victor Hugo.
She took with her an ill mother and the memory of a soldier father who blamed her for not being a boy. She already has famous friends: drama actress Sarah Bernhardt, writer Jean Lorrain, poet Paul Verlaine…
Actually, the whole literary bohemian society of the end of the 19th century, that proclaimed her “queen of the Decadents”.
Yet Rachilde has to face the censorship of her misogynous society, the reason why she will wear man suits, will cut her hair and will declare herself a “man of letters”.
Based on the real life of French writer Rachilde (1860-1953), this novel is the portrait of a forgotten woman though she was one of the greatest names of French literature history. Written in a fin-de-siècle manner, it depicts the shadowy and mystical mood of French countryside then the picturesque setting of the arty Paris of the end of the 19th century.
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EAN : 9782359053654
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 240
Size : 140 x 225 mm
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