Le Chat Noir Exposed: The Absurdist Spirit Behind a 19th Century French Cabaret
Caroline Crepiat
Le Chat Noir Exposed: The Absurdist Spirit Behind a 19th Century French Cabaret
Caroline Crepiat
This extraordinary work of scholarship exposes the liveliest fin-de-siecle bohemian cabaret and journal in Paris. Le Chat Noir was a playground for painters, writers, poets, pranksters, and musicians, all gleefully demolishing the standards of art and good taste. Caroline Crepiat examines such eccentric personalities as Paul Verlaine, Alphonse Allais, Marie Krysinska, Maurice Mac-Nab, and Charles Cros, and analyzes their treatment of money, women, translation, humor, sex, disease, and scatology, with generous samplings of the original texts. A masterful look at a rich and colorful legend of the avant-garde!
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