The Inn of Tears (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781645250906)

"Jacques Fr馼el" was the pseudonym of Alice T駘ot (1861-1918), and the stories in the present volume were published between 1 June 1888 and 18 February 1903 under that pseudonym in various periodicals, though primarily in La Fronde, a feminist newspaper entirely written by women. Compiled and translated into English for the first time by Brian Stableford, this collection of stories and prose poems, previously all but impossible to find, is like a series of deeply intoxicating draughts of a liquor of madness, sorrow, ecstasy and splendor. Spanning the moods of Naturalism, Symbolism and Decadence, the pieces of the long-forgotten but brilliant T駘ot range from the starkly tragic to the hallucinatory, from rustic images of then contemporary Normandy to bizarre scenes of mythology and pseudohistory of the "Bretagne" of Druids, bards and early Christian Saints-from the mysterious boulevards of Paris to the peppery precincts of ancient Egypt. There is every reason why Alice T駘ot should be included in the quest undertaken by modern feminists to uncover more of the buried heritage of early feminist fiction and The Inn of Tears ought to help give her the credit she deserves for the verve, style and inventiveness of her work as well as its fugitive ideology.

Author: Alice T駘ot
ISBN-10: 1645250903
ISBN-13: 9781645250906
Publisher: Snuggly Books
Language: English
Published: 02/22/2022
Pages: 302
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d