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Synopsis:
Daudet based 'Sappho' on his love affair with Chien Vert, a notorious tart. He wrote it when he was already beginning to suffer from the syphilitic paralysis which eventually killed him, and the story is a moral tale intended for his sons to read at 20. It is an evocative portrait of a glorious demi-mondaine, an artist's model still more moving that the works she inspires. Sappho's helplessness and sexual beauty are responsible for the progressive moral and spiritual collapse of her lover. The book is a set-piece illustrating the mauling decadence inflicts on hope.
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- PublisherSoho
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0948166126
- ISBN 13 9780948166129
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages183
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