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Rumpus Book ClubJune 22nd, 2009
Doyenne of the Death Mask
Silencieux is the mute heroine of The Worshipper of the Image, Richard La Galliene’s little known fairy-tale from 1900. She has no body, only a serene face, and as the narrator begins to tell his wife about this extraordinary beauty, any well-schooled early twentieth century intellectual would know exactly which face he meant. …more
