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L'être double

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Natacha de Smyrnoff s'éprend de Géraldine, jeune femme délicate qu'elle séduit, mariée à Raoul de Vauriel, mâle imbu de sa personne, dont elle est déjà la maîtresse intéressée. Témoin du drame qui se noue, Vivian Lindsay, poétesse américaine et orientaliste, n'est pas sans évoquer l'auteure elle-même dans le regard porté sur les hommes et les amours saphiques. Cet ouvrage est la première réédition d'un roman publié en 1904, le premier de Renée Vivien avant "Une femme m'apparut". Il est présenté par Nicolas Berger, spécialiste de la prose de Renée Vivien.

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1904

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Renée Vivien

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Renée Vivien, born Pauline Mary Tarn, was a British poet who wrote in the French language. She took to heart all the mannerisms of Symbolism, as one of the last poets to claim allegiance to the school. Her compositions include sonnets, hendecasyllabic verse, and prose poetry.

Renée's poetry and novels show several sources of inspiration: Natalie Barney, Violet Shilleto, Pierre Louys, and Sappho. Natalie inspired retellings of their relationship through prose and poem. Violet Shilleto, Renée's childhood friend and love who died in 1901, appears in Renée's work through repeated images of violets and the color purple. Pierre Louys's sensual "Songs of Bilitis" and Sappho's evocative poems about women-love influenced Renée's poetic style. Sappho, in particular, became an icon for Renée--she translated the work of Sappho into modern French, and even traveled with Natalie to Lesbos in an attempt to revive a women's artist colony on the island.

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