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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.… (meer)
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This is the story of a young hermaphrodite in France during the 1920s. S/he grows up without knowing his condition, but of course it does not stay that way and s/he engages to remain independent, moving easily between various circles of people, switching from a female to a male presentation and back again. It's the story of inner contemplation and strife of identity and of forever being removed from a society that can only think in duality.
The story itself is not long and is easily read, and very engaging. The language is beautiful, though the dialogue can be strangely brusque. Often it is hard to tell who is speaking as the new indent convention isn't always followed. Whether read for just the intelligent story it is, or for the deeper themes inherent in it, it is a good read.
This printing also contains a long introduction by the translator that discusses the author's life, some interesting linguistic choices of the original and hence the translation, and also goes into a long, thematic essay deconstructing much of the novel. I would highly recommend reading the story first and then deciding whether to engage with the introduction. It is welcome additional material, but the story stands all on its own. ( )
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He often dreamed that his mother, or rather the blind beast which works within us independently of our minds, had been expecting twins while she was carrying him, for, ever since the age when human beings enter into the agony of the soul, he had felt instinctively at his side a mysterious second self.
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Mademoiselle de Valdeclare bent over her quarry. Trembling, and forcing herself to soften that voice which was eternally at breaking point, she insructed, "Now, my love, you mustn't say Dadame any more. You must say Mamma."
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.
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The story itself is not long and is easily read, and very engaging. The language is beautiful, though the dialogue can be strangely brusque. Often it is hard to tell who is speaking as the new indent convention isn't always followed. Whether read for just the intelligent story it is, or for the deeper themes inherent in it, it is a good read.
This printing also contains a long introduction by the translator that discusses the author's life, some interesting linguistic choices of the original and hence the translation, and also goes into a long, thematic essay deconstructing much of the novel. I would highly recommend reading the story first and then deciding whether to engage with the introduction. It is welcome additional material, but the story stands all on its own. (