The Angel and the Perverts

Set in the lesbian and gay circles of Paris in the 1920s, The Angel and the Perverts...
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SKU: 9780814750988
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Author: Lucie Delarue-Mardrus
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The Angel and the Perverts by Delarue-Mardrus, Lucie

The Angel and the Perverts

$533.09

The Angel and the Perverts

$533.09
Author: Lucie Delarue-Mardrus
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Set in the lesbian and gay circles of Paris in the 1920s, The Angel and the Perverts tells the story of a hermaphrodite born to upper class parents in Normandy and ignorant of his/her physical difference. As an adult, s/he lives a double life as Marion/Mario, passing undetected as a lesbian in the literary salons of the times, and as a gay man in the cocaine dens made famous by Colette.
Delarue-Mardrus's novel belongs to a category of literature, written between the turn of the century and approximately 1930, which depicted lesbians as members of a third sex. The hermaphrodite became the visual representation of the ways in which lesbians were different from their heterosexual sisters, and Rene Vivien, Natalie Clifford Barney, Rachilde, and Colette, among others, shared Delarue-Mardrus's fascination with the topic.This is the first translation into English of The Angel and the Perverts. In an astute introduction, Anna Livia rereads Lucie Delarue-Mardrus as a prolific and significant writer, despite the fact that previous scholars viewed her primarily as the wife of the scholar and translator Joseph-Charles Mardrus. Livia also places Delarue-Mardrus's life in a lesbian context for the first time and decodes this delightful novel so that readers will feel quite at home in Mario/Marion's unusual world, which runs the gamut from Auguste Rodin to Jean Cocteau and Sarah Bernhardt.



Author: Lucie Delarue-Mardrus
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 07/01/1995
Pages: 246
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.18h x 5.32w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780814750988

About the Author
Delarue-Mardrus, Lucie: - Lucie Delarue-Mardrus was a prolific and significant writer, despite the fact that previous scholars viewed her primarily as the wife of the scholar and translator Joseph-Charles Mardrus.Livia, Anna: - Anna Livia is the editor/translator of A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney, and the author of four novels, including Relatively Norma and Minimax, and two collections of short stories.

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