{"title":"Jane de la Vaudère","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"rapid-tales-paperback","title":"Rapid Tales - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom April 1897 until April 1903, Jane de La Vaudère (1857-1908) published in the Parisian newspapers La Presse and La Lanterne a series of over one hundred vignettes, mostly under the heading Contes Rapides. These brief stories, of beauty, horror, humor, love, and cruelty, carry strategies of narrative minimalism to a new level, and show the work of a masterful female author who was able to polish gems of decadence to sparkling perfection in the highly misogynistic environment of fin-de-siècle journalism dominated by her male counterparts. \u003c\/p\u003e This collection, assembled and translated into English by Brian Stableford, offers the first opportunity that anyone has ever had to read the series of rapid tales as a series and to asses it as a collage; as a bird's eye view of contemporary Parisian society it is highly selective and idiosyncratic, but that only serves to make it more interesting, and as a pioneering adventure in narrative minimalization it offers a significant exemplar to modern writers' workshops.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67575211229407,"sku":"9781645251248","price":40.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/0BI0DhZfyP9781645251248.webp?v=1790373130"},{"product_id":"the-demi-sexes-and-the-androgynes-paperback","title":"The Demi-Sexes and The Androgynes - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePresented here in English for the first time, in a bravura translation by Brian Stableford, are two highly unusual novels from one of the \u003cem\u003efin-de-siècle's\u003c\/em\u003e most eccentric writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Demi-Sexes\u003c\/em\u003e, originally published in 1897, was the first of Jane de La Vaudère's novels seriously to explore the territory of the conventionally unmentionable, which it does forthrightly, in its first chapter, when its heroine, Camille, asks a doctor, in secret, for \"an operation.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Androgynes\u003c\/em\u003e, first published in 1903, a tale of faithfulness and fickleness amidst the vicious rivalries of the literary and artistic worlds, presents a lush and decadent Paris, replete with cross-dressers, opium smoking, and a provocative miscellany of amour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntensely interesting and intriguing, with their zestful mixture of tragic lamentation and ostentatious outrage, \u003cem\u003eThe Demi-Sexes\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Androgynes\u003c\/em\u003e remain captivatingly readable and are sure to be found daring even by today's standards.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67576905433311,"sku":"9781943813629","price":30.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/IbsPSxcaGD9781943813629.webp?v=1790387616"},{"product_id":"the-double-star-and-other-occult-fantasies-paperback","title":"The Double Star and Other Occult Fantasies - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJane de La Vaudère was one of the most unusual writers of the \u003cem\u003efin de siècle\u003c\/em\u003e, renowned both for her scandalously scabrous Parisian novels, and her accounts of \u003cem\u003emoeurs antiques\u003c\/em\u003e, some of which--notably \u003cem\u003eLe Mystère de Kama\u003c\/em\u003e (1901)--set new standards of excess.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePresented here is her first volume of short stories to be available in English, superbly translated by Brian Stableford: nine extravagant tales of hypnotism and magic, reincarnation and vengeance, animal tamers and necrophilia. Sublimely Gothic, exquisitely hallucinatory, these strange, fatalistic pieces by La Vaudère are surely a landmark in the annals of the fantastic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67576906350815,"sku":"9781943813643","price":28.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/VR8MvN5z9_9781943813643.webp?v=1790387618"},{"product_id":"the-witch-of-ecbatana-and-the-virgin-of-israel-paperback","title":"The Witch of Ecbatana and The Virgin of Israel - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJane de La Vaudère (1857-1908) was undoubtedly one of the most fascinating writers of the Decadent Movement, and here, presented for the first time in English, in translations by Brian Stableford, are two of her best novels-both part of her highly original \u003cem\u003emoeurs antiques\u003c\/em\u003e sequence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first, \u003cem\u003eThe Witch of Ecbatana\u003c\/em\u003e, which was originally published in 1906, takes place during the time of Darius the Great. 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