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The aristocratic French writer known to her readers as "Gyp" was acclaimed by Henry James as "Mistress...of one of the happiest of forms" for her satirical dialogue-novels of fin-de-sie[accent]le Parisian society, but Octave Mirbeau declared her work "filth," as did Ezra Pound, who found it "unreadable...a sort of lady-like slither about sex." Gyp herself was as contradictory as the reactions she provoked. She wrote over one hundred novels, twenty plays, hundreds of articles, and four volumes of

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Author

Silverman, Willa Z., 1959-

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195087543

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Romance, Political Science

Updated

2026-03-25