Mademoiselle de Maupin
Gautier’s first novel (1835) was a Romantic sensation: a man and his mistress both fall in love with the title character, a woman who dresses as a man named Theodore. The novel includes a voyeuristic scene of sleep that is fascinating in its suggestion that the sleeping body should be an open book.
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(English) Gautier, Théophile. Mademoiselle de Maupin. Trans. Helen Constantine. Penguin, 2006.
(French) Gautier, Théophile. Mademoiselle de Maupin. Ed. Adolphe Boschot. Paris: Garnier, 1966.
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