[Item #47617] Pensées d'une Amazone [WITH] Pensées d'une Amazone, Ce Qu'Ils en Pensent. Natalie Clifford BARNEY.

Pensées d'une Amazone [WITH] Pensées d'une Amazone, Ce Qu'Ils en Pensent

Paris: Émile-Paul Frères, 1921. Nouvelle Édition. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's cream wrappers printed in red and black; [4],vii,[1],244pp. Light wear and soil, else Very Good or better. Offered together with promotional pamphlet providing thirty-one reactions to the first (1920) edition by Barney's male readership. This edition expanded from the earlier by more than thirty pages and has been printed on superior stock with wider margins.

Collection of aphorisms extracted in part from an unfinished novel and separated into four loose groupings, the greater portion on the waste of the Great War and love between women. Additionally this edition offered with a 24pp. pictorial side-stitched pamphlet of blurbs written by the book's male readers, including Anatole France ("Amazone, je baise vos mains avec une terreur sacrée"); Ezra Pound ("J'aime ce livre--par bouffées"); Israël Zangwill ("Il n'y a aucune pensée qui effraye cette amazone"); and Paul Valery ("Tu penses? -- dit Hercule, -- donc je fuis!").

Barney, an expatriate American novelist, poet and playwright who wrote primarily in French, lived openly in Paris as a lesbian, feminist, pacifist, and an opposer of monogamy. Inspired by Pierre Louÿs' sapphic erotic poetry collection Chansons de Bilitis (1894), Barney began writing explicitly about her sexuality in her first published work, Quelques Portraits-Sonnets de Femmes (1900). Barney was equally famous for her love affairs with such notable artists as cabaret dancer Liane de Pougy, painter Romaine Brookes, and the British novelist Pauline Tarn (who published under the pen-name Renée Vivien). Barney also inspired Pougy's erotic autobiographical novel Sapphic Idyll and Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness.

Price: $350.00

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