Oblivious of what she did, she began to beat her hands, until they streamed with blood, against the broken glass ends upon the wall: “Yousef, Yousef, Yousef....”
July 1921, May 1922.
Versailles, Montreux, Florence.
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Carl Van Vechten, in The Double Dealer: “It is high time that the world should know something of the works of Ronald Firbank. He is the Pierrot of the Minute. Plus chic que le futurisme. Aubrey Beardsley in a Rolls-Royce. Sacher-Masoch in Mayfair. ‘A Rebours’ à la mode. Aretino in Piccadilly. Jean Cocteau at the Savoy. The Oxford Tradition with a dash of the Paris bains de vapeurs.... Firbank plays Picasso’s violin.”
VAINGLORY
A NOVEL
With a Frontispiece by
FÉLICIEN ROPS
TIMES:
“A perpetual sparkle.”