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Paulina 1880

By: Pierre Jean Jouve

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Paulina 1880, published in 1925, strikingly prefigures the French "new wave" in fiction. In Pierre Jean Jouve's first novel, Paulina - said to be the most beautiful woman in Milan - enters a passionate affair with a married man. Her love for Count Michele Cantarini is all-consuming, yet Paulina is plagued by its impurity in the eyes of her family, of society, of God. The death of her father, and the subsequent death of the Count's wife, send Paulina into an abyss from which neither her love for Michele nor her faith in God can rescue her.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810160048

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9780810160040

Vagadu

The Adventure of Catherine Crachat: II

By: Pierre Jean Jouve

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Vagadu

The Adventure of Catherine Crachat: II

By: Pierre Jean Jouve

Pierre Jean Jouve's novels Hecate and Vagadu trace the carnal and emotional liaisons of Catherine Crachat, a Parisian actress. Vagadu continues the saga of Catherine Crachat begun in Hecate. Having returned to Paris after a sojourn in Vienna that has been fraught with emotional entanglements and the taint of death, Catherine seeks new relationships that will give her life meaning, but she finds that no one is who he or she appears to be. In an emotional tumult, events - both real and imagined - spiral out of her control, and Catherine must reconcile herself to a past in which love and death, debasement and the search for divinity, merge and divide in haunting, kaleidoscopic ways.

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196

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Northwestern University Press

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0810160404

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9780810160408

Vagadu

The Adventure of Catherine Crachat: II

By: Pierre Jean Jouve

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The Adventure of Catherine Crachat: II

By: Pierre Jean Jouve

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Paulina 1880

By: Pierre Jean Jouve

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Hecate

By: Pierre Jean Jouve

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Hecate

By: Pierre Jean Jouve

First published as companion volumes in France, Pierre Jean Jouve's novels Hecate and Vagadu trace the carnal and emotional liaisons of Catherine Crachat, a Parisian actress. Hecate recounts the debaucheries and betrayals of a vicious love triangle: Catherine Crachat and her young lover, Pierre Indemini, part ways in Paris, only to be drawn separately to Vienna and into the web of lust and intrigue cast by the Baroness Fanny Felicitas Hohenstein. Desired both by Fanny and by Pierre, Catherine must choose between joining in the threesome that Fanny is cultivating, or losing both friend and former lover. The deaths of Pierre and of Fanny force Catherine to explore the intersection of love, hatred, and spiritual striving which threatens her very identity.

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160

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Northwestern University Press

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0810160382

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9780810160385

Helene

By: Pierre Jean Jouve

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Helene

By: Pierre Jean Jouve

After his marriage to a psychiatrist nine years his senior, Jouve's work, once marked by the great Christian mystics, became grounded in the Freudian unconscious, site of the conflict between Eros and Thanatos. Hélène is the story of a sixteen-year-old boy's passion for an older woman. Originally published in 1934, it is considered the high point of Jouve's prose career.

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118

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Northwestern University Press

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081016003X

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9780810160033

Selected Poems

By: Charles-Pierre Baudelaire

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Selected Poems

By: Charles-Pierre Baudelaire

The poems of Charles Baudelaire are filled with explicit and unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity every day subjects ignored by French literary conventions of his time. 'Tableaux parisiens' portrays the brutal life of Paris's thieves, drunkards and prostitutes amid the debris of factories and poorhouses. In love poems such as 'Le Beau Navire', flights of lyricism entwine with languorous eroticism, while prose poems such as 'La Chambre Double' deal with the agonies of artistic creation and mortality. With their startling combination of harsh reality and sublime beauty, formal ingenuity and revolutionary poetic language, these poems, including a generous selection from Les Fleurs du Mal, show Baudelaire as one of the most influential poets of the nineteenth century.

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Penguin UK

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0141960906

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9780141960906

Living Currency

By: Pierre Klossowski

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Living Currency

By: Pierre Klossowski

I should have written you after my first reading of The Living Currency; it was already breath-taking and I should have responded. After reading it a few more times, I know it is the best book of our times.' Letter to Pierre Klossowski from Michel Foucault, winter 1970. Living Currency is the first English translation of Klossowski's La monnaie vivante. It offers an analysis of economic production as a mechanism of psychic production of desires and is a key work from this often overlooked but wonderfully creative French thinker.

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139

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472512375

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9781472512376

Such a Deathly Desire

By: Pierre Klossowski

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Such a Deathly Desire

By: Pierre Klossowski

Provocative essays on language, literature, and the aesthetics of embodiment.

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166

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SUNY Press

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0791471969

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9780791471968

Hecate

By: Pierre Jean Jouve

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Hecate

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Northwestern University Press

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0810160382

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9780810160385

Helene

By: Pierre Jean Jouve

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