Damen med vargen

ALASTOR PRESS 

Renée Vivien's The Lady with the Wolf is a delicate collection of short stories that exudes fin-de-siècle. Exotic regions, Old Testament landscapes and Venetian palaces make up its worlds inhabited by wild animals, femme fatales and chaste poetesses. But beneath the tickling decadence, Vivien's prose is astonishingly modern. With redeeming irony, she overturns given gender roles and mixes playfulness with the death drive in a way that has no literary equivalent.

Renée Vivien (pseudonym of Pauline Tarn) was a prominent figure in French symbolist circles at the turn of the century. She has been given the nickname Sappho in 1900, which at once testifies to her openly lesbian lifestyle and the quality of her poetry.

Title: The Lady with the Wolf
Original title: La dame à la louve
Author: Renée Vivien
Language: Swedish
Translator: Hillevi Hellberg

Designer: Beatrice Bohman
Format: Wirebound softcover
Number of pages: 172
Published: September 2015

ISBN: 9789189633384

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Alastor Press is a Swedish independent publisher with a focus on literature that moves in the dark, esoteric and artistically distinctive. The publisher is known for its careful editions of both classic and contemporary works in areas such as decadence, symbolism, horror and philosophical fiction. With an eye for the obscure and cult, Alastor Press highlights writing that challenges, seduces and lingers.