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The Tigress: A Curious Love Story

The Tigress: A Curious Love Story - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Walter Serner, Leo Haas (Illustrator), M. K (Translator)Publish date:12/2/2025Pages:171
Language:EnglishPublisher:Twisted Spoon PressISBN-13:9788088628095ISBN-10:8088628091UPC:9788088628095Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Mystery & DetectiveBook Topic:Europe (General), International Crime & MysterySize:7.70 x 5.30 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.56Product ID:SCQS7ANBMD
When Bichette, the eponymous Tigress and uncrowned queen of Paris prostitutes, meets the grifter Fec, the unbelievable seems to happen: she is "tamed" and falls head over heels for him -- and he for her. This sets off a dangerous game that spirals toward wild escalation in the luxury hotels and casinos of the French Riviera before reaching its grotesque culmination in Montmartre. The nihilism and invented personas recall Serner's engagement with Dada as nothing anyone says or does can be taken at face value. Everything becomes a con, and love the greatest con of all.

Responding to initial attempts to ban The Tigress for its erotic content and demimonde patois by having it placed on a list of "trash and smut writings," many well-known authors, such as Alfred Döblin, wrote testimonials in support of it.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Twisted Spoon PressISBN-13:9788088628095ISBN-10:8088628091UPC:9788088628095Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Mystery & DetectiveBook Topic:Europe (General), International Crime & MysterySize:7.70 x 5.30 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.56Product ID:SCQS7ANBMD
Serner, Walter: - Born in Karlovy Vary, Bohemia, Serner sat out WWI in Switzerland and contributed to the origins of Dada, editing the magazine Sirius and Zeltweg and writing his Dada Manifesto. After the war ended he began to travel around Europe and put his experiences with the underworld in his sole novel and three volumes of short fiction.
Publisher: Twisted Spoon Press

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