Book: Monsieur Venus 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.
Details of Book: Monsieur Venus Book: Monsieur Venus
Author: Rachilde, Liz Constable, Melanie Hawthorne
ISBN: 0873529294
ISBN-13: 9780873529297
, 978-0873529297
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: Oct 2004
Publisher: Modern Language Association Of America
Number of Pages: 160
Language: English