Word: hippogriff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 the signing of a false letter admitting adultery in the marriage-to-be (giving Costals legal grounds for divorce...
...notebooks, oddments of thought and author's asides. The chief irony of The Girls, though, is that Costals, who keeps asserting that creative man must free himself from the constricting influence of women, ends by falling victim to his own fear and rage. Costals never succumbs to the Hippogriff. But by defining himself so incessantly in relation to women, he becomes, in some peculiar and not very attractive way, very much a ladies...