The Notorious Life of Gyp: Right-Wing Anarchist in Fin-De-Siècle France

by Willa Z. Silverman

Book Overview

The aristocratic French writer known to her readers as "Gyp" was acclaimed by Henry James as "Mistress...of one of the happiest of forms" for her satirical dialogue-novels of fin-de-sie accent]le Parisian society, but Octave Mirbeau declared her work "filth," as did Ezra Pound, who found it "unreadable...a sort of lady-like slither about sex." Gyp herself was as contradictory as the reactions she provoked. She wrote over one hundred novels, twenty...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195087542
• ISBN13: 9780195087543
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.6"