Publisher's Synopsis
MONSIEUR VÉNUS is a novel written by the French symbolist and defiant writer Rachel (aka Margaret Eymery). Initially published in 1884, it was his second novel and it is considered to be his break-through work. Due to its highly erotic content, it was the subject of legal dispute and general scandal, Rachilde was brought to the public eye.Rachilde was the name and novelist and playwright Marguerite Velelet-Aymeri (February 11, 1860 - April 4, 1953). The novel is the story of a French great Raúl de Veneránda and he is in search of sexual pleasure to create a new and more satisfying identity for himself. In order to avoid the envy and unhealthiness of the existence of the upper class bound to its tradition, it has to break social class, gender roles and sexual morality and cross it.
