The Juggler Rachilde |
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| Author:
| Vallette-Eymery, Marguerite |
| Translator:
| Hawthorne, Melanie C. |
| Introduction by:
| Hawthorne, Melanie C. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8135-1625-7 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1990 |
| Publisher: | Rutgers University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $33.95 |
Book Description:
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The Juggler (La Jongleuse) is a "decadent" novel that was first published in 1900. Its author, Marguerite Vallette-Eymery (1860-1953), who used the pseudonym Rachilde, was a prolific novelist (over sixty works of fiction), playwright, literary critic and reviewer, and a forceful presence in French literary society of her time. The protagonist of the novel, Eliante Donalger, is in some sense an exaggerated double for her creator--bizarre in appearance, clothing, and...
More Description The Juggler (La Jongleuse) is a "decadent" novel that was first published in 1900. Its author, Marguerite Vallette-Eymery (1860-1953), who used the pseudonym Rachilde, was a prolific novelist (over sixty works of fiction), playwright, literary critic and reviewer, and a forceful presence in French literary society of her time. The protagonist of the novel, Eliante Donalger, is in some sense an exaggerated double for her creator--bizarre in appearance, clothing, and interests. Instinctively grasping a medical and psychological truth that the turn-of-the-century scientific world was only beginning to understand, Eliante maintains that there is nothing "natural" about human sexual expression.