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THE DEMI-SEXES AND THE ANDROGYNES IBD

SNUGGLY BOOKS
06 / 2018
9781943813629
Inglés

Sinopsis

Presented here in English for the first time, in a bravura translation by Brian Stableford, are two highly unusual novels from one of the fin-de-siècle&rsquo,s most eccentric writers.The Demi-Sexes, originally published in 1897, was the first of Jane de La Vaudère&rsquo,s novels seriously to explore the territory of the conventionally unmentionable, which it does forthrightly, in its first chapter, when its heroine, Camille, asks a doctor, in secret, for &ldquo,an operation.&rdquo,The Androgynes, first published in 1903, a tale of faithfulness and fickleness amidst the vicious rivalries of the literary and artistic worlds, presents a lush and decadent Paris, replete with cross-dressers, opium smoking, and a provocative miscellany of amour.Intensely interesting and intriguing, with their zestful mixture of tragic lamentation and ostentatious outrage, The Demi-Sexes and The Androgynes remain captivatingly readable and are sure to be found daring even by today&rsquo,s standards.

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21,80