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Costals accepts neither. He cannot abide the idea of married coupling ("sublimation, wrangling and frenzy"). Instead, as a change from Andrée's overblown (not to say overwritten) femininity, he pursues Solange Dandillot, a pretty and reassuringly placid young thing from the Parisian upper middle class. At first she is just right for him, pliant and emotionally phlegmatic. But soon a monster, which Costals calls the Hippogriff, begins to stir in her. In short, she becomes a woman who wants to get married. To that end, she willingly suffers every humiliation that Costals can devise for her, including...
...Pity for Women, to tell the love story of worldly, malicious, 34-year-old Pierre Costals and pretty, innocent, 21-year-old Solange Dandillot. Author de Montherlant begins by giving pages of letters written to Costals, a successful novelist, by his feminine admirers. He writes a lugubrious essay on matrimonial advertisements (''Behind every one of these advertisements a face, a body, an unknown something that, after all, may well be a heart...
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