Abidor Mitchell - Ariane A Russian Girl - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Men speak freely of the women they ve had and we re condemned to silence. Why? Aren t we as free as you? Don t we like you have the right to take pleasure wherever we find it? They praise seducers in art poetry and literature and put a mask of infamy on any woman who's had many lovers. This is the point where the fight must be fought. Women's morality must triumph and that's what I m working at Thus Ariane unconventional irrepressible and irre - sistible at seventeen the queen bee of the provincial Russian town where after her mother's early demise she lives with her freethinking aunt. But Ariane is tired of breaking hearts in the sticks. Her father may wish to marry her off but she means to go to the university in Moscow and she will do whatever it takes to make her way the way she likes. In Moscow Ariane is in her element. She loves the glamour of the big city. She's undaunted by its dangers. Before long she meets Constantin Michel businessman man of the world man - about - town. A new struggle begins. The inspiration for Billy Wilder's Love in the Afternoon Ariane has the perverse glitter of Nabokov and the disabused curiosity and keen emotional intelligence of Colette. It is a brilliant exploration engrossing unnerving comic and cunning of the matchless cruelty of desire.
Title: Ariane A Russian Girl
Author(s): Abidor Mitchell
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9781681377100
Pages: 200 Pages
Publication Date: 8/1/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction