The story of a love triangle consisting of a gay man, an asexual poet, and a woman who loves them both. These characters strive to find fulfillment in their sexuality and in their spiritual natures.
Leonide is a young man who meets Helene deSannis in Northern Italy. A married contessa, Helene spends much of her time alone because her husband is an officer with the army. She takes Leonide as her lover, and he, in turn, becomes obsessed with her. Leonide then meets the young Pauliet, a nephew of Helene and her husband, who, although dying, ...
In the second volume of Jouve's novel (this one published originally in 1931), Catherine explores her early childhood through psychoanalysis, recovers memories of sexual abuse, gradually moves away from her tendency toward masochism, and achieves a new degree of self-knowledge.
In 1937 the twenty-year-old David Gascoyne, later to be one of the most significant English writers of the twentieth century, found in Paris a copy of "Poemes de la folie de Holderlin" by the eminent French poet and novelist Pierre Jean Jouve (1887-1976). The following year he was introduced to Jouve, whose influence would be crucial to the ...
The first of two volumes about the life of a beautiful Parisian movie star by the avant-garde poet Pierre Jean Jouve (1887-1976) was first published in 1928. In this volume, Catherine meets and falls in love with a young man named Pierre, loses him, is involved in a ménage à trois, and becomes the prey of a bisexual Viennese woman.
"Paulina" -- said to be the most beautiful woman in Milan -- enters a passionate affair with a married man. Her love for Count Michele Cantarini is all-consuming, yet Paulina is plagued by its impurity in the eyes of her family, of society, of God. The death of her father, and the subsequent death of the Count's wife, send Paulina into an abyss ...
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