Word: lupercalia
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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Against the realistic but poetically envisaged background of yesterday's Paris, in a political climate heavy with the Stavisky scandals and the riots of Feb. 6, 1934, swarms a crowd of fantastic figures in a kind of Lutetian Lupercalia. Outlines of the story are mundane enough. Elvira, pretty and discontented, has left her stodgy British husband to join her lover, Oliver, in Paris. On the train from Calais she meets Marpurgo, a cultured lace-buyer, an opaque fellow who grows more sinister with acquaintance. He describes himself as "a virtuoso in decadence, disintegration, mental necrosis. . . ." His hearers are usually...
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