Project Gutenberg 2025-06-08 Public domain in the USA. 115 Rachilde 1860 1953 Vallette, Marguerite Eymery Eymery, Marguerite Chilra, Jean de Chibra, Jean de Eymeri, Marguerite La souris japonaise : $b roman $aParis :$bErnest Flammarion, $c1921. Laurent Vogel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica)) "La souris japonaise : roman" by Rachilde is a novel written in the early 20th century. It presents a first-person confession by a young bourgeois man, Henri, who frames an eventual “crime” as a moral act while recounting his formation between an exalted, chaste bond with his Jesuit tutor, Abbé Armand de Sembleuse, and a clandestine, troubling entanglement with his cousin, Lucienne Morin. The story probes desire, purity, and bourgeois hypocrisy through a psychological lens. The opening of the novel finds Henri addressing his lawyer, insisting his “crime” is a useful, logical outcome of his life, then retracing his upbringing: distant, respectable parents; a corrosive household atmosphere; and the arrival of the elegant Abbé Armand as preceptor. As Lucienne imposes herself on him, Armand disapproves and gradually binds Henri to a demanding ideal of purity; their intense, platonic attachment culminates in an Italian journey that heightens both devotion and perilous jealousy. Back home, amid a provincial ball and family expectations of marriage, Henri grows more alienated; ill health follows, and his parents push for a prudent future. The section ends with a confrontation in which Henri’s father announces Lucienne’s pregnancy and implies Henri is responsible, while Henri flatly denies it, invoking what Armand knows of the truth. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k806755 20241206070603rachilde 1921 FR Reading ease score: 80.9 (6th grade). Easy to read. fr French fiction -- 20th century PQ Text Category: Novels Category: French Literature 358956 2025-07-30T07:19:04.396511 text/html 334302 2025-06-09T12:43:47 text/html 274670 2025-07-30T07:19:09.662473 application/epub+zip 279538 2025-07-30T07:19:05.407507 application/epub+zip 231629 2025-07-30T07:19:04.897462 application/epub+zip 482945 2025-07-30T07:19:13.097488 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 465563 2025-07-30T07:19:09.305507 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 328074 2025-07-30T07:19:03.602449 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 308176 2025-06-09T12:43:47 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14260 2025-07-30T07:19:13.267405 application/rdf+xml 10769 2025-07-30T07:19:05.096453 image/jpeg 2524 2025-07-30T07:19:04.990464 image/jpeg 237572 2025-07-30T07:19:04.430493 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia fr.wikipedia