The Woman and the Puppet
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The Woman and the Puppet

Pierre Louÿs
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The Woman and the Puppet - which drew some of its inspiration from Bizet''s Carmen, as well as a particular episode in Casanova''s Memoirs - is a precise account of obsessive love, a distillation of the decadence of the turn of the century.
Genres: FictionFranceFrench LiteratureClassicsEroticaLiterature19th CenturyNovelsRomanBelgium
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