The Woman and the Puppet

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The Woman and the Puppet is a 1898 novel by Pierre Louÿs that tells a provocative tale of obsessive desire and manipulation between a Spanish woman and the man infatuated with her.

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instanceOf novel
author Pierre Louÿs NERFINISHED
basedOn earlier literary and folkloric traditions about fatal women
countryOfOrigin France
genre erotic literature
novel of passion
psychological fiction
hasAdaptation La Femme et le Pantin (1928 film) NERFINISHED
La Femme et le Pantin (1959 film) NERFINISHED
That Obscure Object of Desire (1977 film) NERFINISHED
The Devil Is a Woman (1935 film) NERFINISHED
hasCharacterType femme fatale
hasFemaleProtagonist Concha Pérez NERFINISHED
hasForm prose
hasLiteraryDevice symbolism of puppetry and control
unreliable narrator
hasMaleProtagonist Don Mateo Díaz NERFINISHED
hasMoralQuestion limits of desire and control in love
hasSubject emotional cruelty
masochistic desire
sexual jealousy
hasTranslation The Woman and the Puppet (English translation title) NERFINISHED
influencedWork That Obscure Object of Desire (1977 film) NERFINISHED
literaryMovement fin de siècle literature
mainCharacter Concha Pérez NERFINISHED
Don Mateo Díaz NERFINISHED
narrativePerspective first-person narration
notableFor influence on European cinema
portrayal of erotic power struggle
originalLanguage French
originalTitle La Femme et le Pantin NERFINISHED
placeOfPublication Paris NERFINISHED
publicationYear 1898
publisher Librairie Charpentier et Fasquelle NERFINISHED
settingLocation Spain NERFINISHED
theme manipulation
obsessive desire
power dynamics in relationships
seduction
timePeriodOfSetting late 19th century

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That Obscure Object of Desire basedOn The Woman and the Puppet