:quality(75)/https%3A%2F%2Fdev.lareviewofbooks.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2020%2F07%2Fperversity.png)
All the Sad Clowns: On Francis Carco’s Novel “Perversity”
Revisiting Jean Rhys’s translation of a classic French tale of sadistic desire and forbidden love.
Douglas Glover
Douglas Glover is the author of the novels Elle and The Life and Times of Captain N. His most recent book is The Erotics of Restraint: Essays on Literary Form.