L'ane Mort Et La Femme Guillotinee
- Hardcover
- Paris: Adolphe Delahays, Libraire-Editeur, 1860
Paris: Adolphe Delahays, Libraire-Editeur, 1860. Hardcover. Very Good +. Hardcover. Green cloth backed marble paper covered boards with marroon leather title label with gilt title to spine. Small gilt flower to spine. Minor wear to spine ends and to corners as well as very minor rubbing to boards. Original wraps bound in. First and last free end pages glued to wraps. Minor damp staining to top edge of first few pages but does not effect the text. Minor browning to edges. Previous owner's signature to front free end page. Writing in pencil to original wrap. Text is clean and bright. IN FRENCH. 164 pages. French Literature. FRELANG/092508
Jules Janin (1804-1874) was one of the major exponents of the frénétique school of literature, which reveled in excesses, dark themes, and ghoulish situations, and The Dead Donkey and the Guillotined Woman, originally published in 1829, and long out of print in English, is certainly the most frénétique of his novels-and, in fact, one of the greatest landmarks left behind by that school as a whole.
A cruel story of great artistry, at once sly, desperate, and immensely tragic, The Dead Donkey and the Guillotined Woman, though filled with quips and dark humor, is a blood-curdling exercise in literary flamboyance that is no less devastating today than when it was first released.
Jules Janin (1804-1874) was one of the major exponents of the frénétique school of literature, which reveled in excesses, dark themes, and ghoulish situations, and The Dead Donkey and the Guillotined Woman, originally published in 1829, and long out of print in English, is certainly the most frénétique of his novels-and, in fact, one of the greatest landmarks left behind by that school as a whole.
A cruel story of great artistry, at once sly, desperate, and immensely tragic, The Dead Donkey and the Guillotined Woman, though filled with quips and dark humor, is a blood-curdling exercise in literary flamboyance that is no less devastating today than when it was first released.