Le Chat Noir Exposed: The Absurdist Spirit Behind a 19th Century French Cabaret (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781735615967)

This extraordinary work of scholarship exposes the liveliest fin-de-si鐵le bohemian cabaret and journal in Paris. Le Chat Noir was a playground for painters, writers, poets, pranksters, and musicians, all gleefully demolishing the standards of art and good taste. Caroline Cr駱iat examines such eccentric personalities as Paul Verlaine, Alphonse Allais, Marie Krysinska, Maurice Mac-Nab, and Charles Cros, and analyzes their treatment of money, women, translation, humor, sex, disease, and scatology, with generous samplings of the original texts. A masterful look at a rich and colorful legend of the avant-garde!

Author: Doug Skinner, Caroline Cr駱iat
ISBN-10: 173561596X
ISBN-13: 9781735615967
Publisher: Black Scat Books
Language: English
Published: 06/27/2021
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d