#french literature

[mournfulroses]

Paul Verlaine, from a poem titled "Lover's Chat", featured in 100 and One Poems by Paul Verlaine

[theoptia]

Hélène Cixous, from The Laugh of the Medusa

Text ID: Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as violently as from their bodies ... Writing is for you, you are for you; your body is yours, take it.

[feral-ballad]

Claude de Burine, tr. Gloria Still, from Serving Blood: New Poems by French Women; “The Medium”

[terrorignitis]

Georges Bataille, Erotism: Death and Sensuality

[thehunchcast]

(The latter, in our humble opinion.)

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

"My dark and lovely thing,"

~ Charles Baudelaire, "Remorse Too Late" from The Flowers of Evil (transl. George Dillon & Edna St. Vincent Millay)

[metamorphesque]

Getting Lost, Annie Ernaux (tr. Alison L. Strayer)