A young poet of the Ideal secretly sinks into violent debauchery and becomes a successful and exceptionally conformist author thanks to his mistress. In this novel, Catulle Mendes scrutinizes the inner workings of the poetic vocation and a literary career as well as the many forms desire takes.
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