The Angel and the Perverts (The Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (598 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814750982 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 246 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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Cherie L. Gordon said Pervert Power. Wonderful story and characterization of Lorna Wells based on the author's personal knowledge of Natalie Barney. Women don't write like this anymore; it is a bygone era's sytle of writing which is supurb. If you have any interest in women of the Left Bank, buy this book.. Angel and Perverts me Got this book to use as a source for a lesbian lit class. Was able to compare to other books and story-lines for a decent paper
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. 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. 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. 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 f
And the plot and style are a hoot. . Her work, like that of her pals Renee Vivien, Sarah Bernhardt, and Natalie Barney, explores the boundaries of gender, sex, and desire. Lucie Delarue-Mardrus lived during the golden age of lesbian literature: Paris in the 1920s. The rediscovery of this lost classic contributes much to contemporary gender studies. This first English translation of The Angel and the Perverts tells the story of Marion/Mario, a hermaphrodite who travels as easily through lesbian salons as s/he does through gay men's dope dens