Author: Jouve, Pierre Jean, translated by Rosette Letellier and Robert Bullen,
Title: Paulina 1880.
Description: Evanston, IL, Marlboro Press/Northwestern, (1995). VG PB. First published in 1925, Paulina strikingly prefigures the French "new wave" in fiction. Jouve's first novel where Paulina. said to be the most striking woman in Milan enters a passionate affair with a count eventually sends her into an abyss from which nothing can rescue her. In Jouve's work asceticism is inseparable from sensuality.

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