The Notorious Life of Gyp: Right-Wing Anarchist in Fin-de-Si�cle France Hardcover - 1995
by Silverman, Willa Z
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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 recollections, yet in 1908, only midway through her long career, she declared "What I insist on making explicitly clear for posterity is that I took no pleasure in writing". She denounced corsets and arranged marriages, but violently repudiated any suggestion that she might be a feminist. Politically, she was a most paradoxical figure - a right-wing anarchist. Called to testify at the trial of purported nationalist conspirators in 1899, at the height of the national disgrace of the Dreyfus Affair, Gyp defiantly chose to identify her profession not as "writer", but as "anti-Semite". In the first critical biography ever written of this gifted and troubled woman, Willa Z. Silverman brilliantly illuminates the life and times of Gyp, otherwise known as Sibylle-Gabrielle Marie-Antoinette de Riquetti de Mirabeau, comtesse de Martel de Janville (1849-1932). Drawing on a rich cache of previously unpublished correspondence and other documentation, Silverman probes beneath Gyp's many scandals to reveal the deep psychological and political conflicts in her make-up. A descendant of both the great revolutionary orator Mirabeau and the equally impassioned counterrevolutionary Mirabeau-Tonneau, Gyp emerges as someone who defined herself, above all, by what she was not. Silverman shows how Gyp's anti-Semitism, anti-Republicanism, and her complicated rejection of both traditional femininity and feminism were rooted in her own self-loathing, and became the creative hatreds that drove both her life and work.
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- Title The Notorious Life of Gyp: Right-Wing Anarchist in Fin-de-Si�cle France
- Author Silverman, Willa Z
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 325
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, New York
- Date 1995
- ISBN 9780195087543
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1920's
- Chronological Period: 1930's
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Chronological Period: 1900-1919
- Cultural Region: French
- Cultural Region: Western Europe
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
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Citations
- Kirkus Reviews, 12/01/1994, Page 1599
- Library Journal, 02/15/1995, Page 169
- Publishers Weekly, 12/05/1994, Page 61
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