All posts by Michelle Legro

June 22nd, 2009

Doyenne of the Death Mask

picture-59Silencieux 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

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Michelle Legro is an adjunct scholar at Lapham's Quarterly. She is also the assistant editor of Lost and Found: Stories from New York, the second collection of work from Mr. Beller's Neighborhood.

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