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Monsieur Vénus...

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La femme aux mains d'ivoire

As a woman, Rachilde was a rarity among Decadent authors, and in Raoule de Venerande she created a Decadent heroine of singularly monstrous proportions. For the imperious Raoule, Amazon and expert fencer, scion of an aristocratic line that has engendered Sadean libertines and pious spinsters, lesbianism is merely a banal vice. She seeks to transcend the limits of sensual experience in a liaison involving the sado-masochistic swapping of genders, and in which necrophilia can be relished in advance of death. The object of her desires is the girlish Jacques Silvert, whom she plucks from his insalubrious slum and installs as her mistress in a lavish boudoir. Raoule systematically enslaves Jacques by forcing him to surrender his maleness, while she embraces the role of virile lover and ultimately that of the husband about to be betrayed.

Monsieur Vénus

Les accords perdus

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.

Monsieur Vénus: Roman Matérialiste

Romancière «fin de siècle» associée à toute la vie littéraire de son temps, Rachilde traite ici de façon bouleversante le thème de la solitude à travers l'histoire sulfureuse de deux gardiens de phare: le vieux Mathurin Barnabas et le jeune Jean Maleux qui vient l'aider. Leur phare, c'est le phare d'Ar-men, le plus haut des phares bretons. La mer alentour, au rythme de laquelle oscille la construction, ne se fait jamais oublier. Rachilde raconte la prise de possession de Jean Maleux par ce phare qui exsude un démon de la solitude au pouvoir dissolvant. Dans cette ambiance confinée et morbide, il découvre le pitoyable secret de Barnabas. Le vieux gardien de phare voue en effet un culte aux femmes noyées lors des tempêtes et les guette pour pouvoir les aimer. Une sorte d'entente muette s'établit entre les deux hommes jusqu'à la mort de Barnabas.

La Tour d´amour

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Excerpt from L'Hotel du Grand Veneur: RomanLes parents, demeures prisonniers de la pe tite grille refermee, avaient la mine piteuse de pauvres betes a qui l'on ne doit plus jeter de pain.

L'Hôtel du Grand Veneur

Excerpt from La Tour d'Amour Il n'y avait plus a s'en dedire, car on ne plaisante guere dans'cette partie de la marine. Quand une fois on y est, on y est. Faut pas leur conter plus tard que ca vous tourne sur le coeur.

La Tour d'Amour

Alfred Jarry : Le surmâle de lettres

Accroupie, toute de blanc vêtue, l'enfant regarde en silence, les yeux exorbités, le gros boucher assommer, au fond d'un grand trou noir, le boeuf ; le boeuf du petit Jésus. Le bruit du choc, la vue du sang que la mère phtisique boit à petites gorgées, colorant de rouge ses lèvres pâlies marqueront à jamais l'enfance de Mary.Une oeuvre flamboyante qui met en scène la vie rude que mena une petite fille élevée à la hussarde par son père officier dans l'armée impériale. Mary deviendra un monstre assoiffé de sang... Elle aura un compte à régler avec le «mâle» qui a tué en elle l'innocence.

La Marquise de Sade

Marguerite Eymery, épouse Alfred Vallette, dite Rachilde, née au domaine de Cros (entre Château-l'Évêque et Périgueux, Dordogne) le 11 février 1860 et morte à Paris le 4 avril 1953, est une femme de lettres française.
Elle a également publié sous les pseudonymes de Jean de Childra et Jean de Chibra.

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