Rachilde and the Decadence of the Myth of the Femme Fatale and the Androgyne

Abstract

Among all the elements characterizing in Rachilde’s work, the re-writing has always been a privileged position, specially in myth and legends re-writing. Despite of the persistence and the abusive exploitation of the decadence period in the late 19th century in her whole literary production, the decline of her mythical and legendary re-writing in her work testifies the weak-side of her imagination referring to the decadence period