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- Learners with some French reading ability who want to expand their reading of original texts
- Readers and researchers studying late-nineteenth-century French literature
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About the author
Edmond Haraucourt (1856–1941) was a French writer whose life and education are sparsely documented in public sources; he is known chiefly through his poetry and narrative works. Two of his works are held here: the poetry collection La Légende des sexes: Poëmes hystériques and Amis. The former, whose title means "The Legend of the Sexes," gathers poems subtitled "hysterical poems" that deal directly with relations between the sexes and with desire, in bold, symbolist-tinged language; it was notorious in late nineteenth-century French letters for its transgressive subject matter and stirred controversy. The latter, judging by its title, is a narrative work on the theme of friendship, written in a plainer style. Seen together, the two show an author equally capable of handling erotic subjects through intense imagery and of turning to human feeling. Haraucourt remains a marginal yet distinctive voice in late nineteenth-century French literature, valued more for the provocation of his themes and the experimental quality of his verse than for mainstream canonical standing.
