
The Tigress
A Curious Love Story
Walter Serner(Author)
Twisted Spoon Press
Published on 11. November 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
171 pages
978-80-88628-09-5 (ISBN)
Description
When Bichette, the eponymous Tigress and uncrowned queen of Paris prostitutes, meets the grifter Fec, the unbelievable seems to happen: she is "tamed" and falls head over heels for him -- and he for her. This sets off a dangerous game that spirals toward wild escalation in the luxury hotels and casinos of the French Riviera before reaching its grotesque culmination in Montmartre. The nihilism and invented personas recall Serner's engagement with Dada as nothing anyone says or does can be taken at face value. Everything becomes a con, and love the greatest con of all.
Responding to initial attempts to ban The Tigress for its erotic content and demimonde patois by having it placed on a list of "trash and smut writings," many well-known authors, such as Alfred Döblin, wrote testimonials in support of it.
Responding to initial attempts to ban The Tigress for its erotic content and demimonde patois by having it placed on a list of "trash and smut writings," many well-known authors, such as Alfred Döblin, wrote testimonials in support of it.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Prague
Czech Republic
Product notice
With flaps
Illustrations
1 black and white frontispiece
Dimensions
Height: 194 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
254 gr
ISBN-13
978-80-88628-09-5 (9788088628095)
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Born in Karlovy Vary, Bohemia, Serner sat out WWI in Switzerland and contributed to the origins of Dada, editing the magazine Sirius and Zeltweg and writing his Dada Manifesto. After the war ended he began to travel around Europe and put his experiences with the underworld in his sole novel and three volumes of short fiction.