The Woman and the Puppet
La femme et le pantin
Published on 28. February 2012
168 pages
978-1-907650-82-6 (ISBN)
Description
One of the great novels of obsessive love which has inspired 5 films.
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Pierre Louys
Woman and the Puppet
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03/1999
Dedalus Ltd
€32.39
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Louys (1870-1925) was an important critic,poet and novelist
Content
- Intro
- Title
- The Author
- Poem
- Contents
- Chapter One How One Word Written on an Eggshell Served as Two Successive Notes
- Chapter Two In Which the Reader Learns the Diminutive Forms of the Spanish Christian Name "Concepción"
- Chapter Three How, and for what Reasons, André did not go to Concha Pérez's Rendezvous
- Chapter Four Apparition of a Little Moorish Girl in a Polar Landscape
- Chapter Five In which the Same Person Reappears in a More Familiar Setting
- Chapter Six In which Conchita Makes Herself known, Holds Herself Back, and Disappears
- Chapter Seven Which ends in a Tailpiece of Black Tresses
- Chapter Eight In which the Reader Begins to Understand Just who the Puppet is in this Story
- Chapter Nine In which Concha Pérez Undergoes her third Metamorphosis
- Chapter Ten In which Mateo Finds Himself Present at an Unforeseen Spectacle
- Chapter Eleven How There Seems to be an Explanation for Everything
- Chapter Twelve Scene Behind a Closed Iron Gate
- Chapter Thirteen How Mateo Received a Visit, and what Ensued
- Chapter Fourteen In which Concha Changes her Way of Life, but not her Character
- Chapter Fifteen Which is the Epilogue and Also the Moral of this Story
- Copyright
