Marguerite Vallette-Eymery,"Rachilde" (1860-1953)
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The Juggler
Rachilde
By Marguerite Vallette-Eymery,"Rachilde" (1860-1953); Translated by Melanie C. Hawthorne; Introduction by Melanie C. Hawthorne
Rutgers University Press
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.
- Copyright year: 1990
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