Cortigiana
The high number of female protagonists demonstrates that modern writers were aware of how, through their otherness, women could personify an alternative to the contemporary rationalist visions. For that reason, a woman was more than once depicted as a destructive force (e.g., Marten's prostitute Ysotta). However, female characters, while allegorically commenting on the present day, were also - paradoxically - depicted as men’s creations or inventions (e.g., Villiers' The Future Eve). This ambiguity was explored by some female artists in their works as well: Rachilde created Mr. Venus: a being of dual gender – a woman dressed in a man's clothes, treating a man as a woman and turning him into a work of art.
| Subject: | Others |
| Author: | Marten, Miloš |
| Title: | Cortigiana |
| Date: | 1911 |
| Place of publication: | Prague |
| Publisher: | Kamilla Neumannová |
| Origin: | library of František Topič and Marie Blekastadová |
| Licence: | Free license |
