Le visage d'une peintre sur poupées devient l'obsession — et le chef-d'œuvre — d'un taxidermiste.
Ceux qui portent l'histoire
Twin doll-painter with an artist's eye and a survivor's nerve. She trades her face for lessons, her safety for independence, and ultimately kills to keep both.
Taxidermist who mistakes obsession for love and preservation for art. He wants Iris stuffed, cased, and his forever — and dies by her hand in the cellar he built for her.
Pre-Raphaelite painter who sees Iris as his ideal model, then as his lover, then as his equal — though not without cost to both.
Iris's smallpox-scarred twin, seamstress at the doll shop. Her envy of Iris's unmarked face curdles into denunciation before a hard-won reconciliation.
Street boy collecting bones and dead specimens for Silas, an unwitting bridge between Iris's world and the taxidermist's — and her first would-be specimen.
Les liens entre eux
He wants Iris stuffed, cased, and his forever — and dies by her hand in the cellar he built for her.
Pre-Raphaelite painter who sees Iris as his ideal model, then as his lover, then as his equal — though not without cost to both.
Iris's smallpox-scarred twin, seamstress at the doll shop.
Street boy collecting bones and dead specimens for Silas, an unwitting bridge between Iris's world and the taxidermist's — and her first would-be specimen.
Street boy collecting bones and dead specimens for Silas, an unwitting bridge between Iris's world and the taxidermist's — and her first would-be specimen.
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Les femmes comme objets, les femmes comme artistes · Le regard masculin comme prédation · Sororité et rivalité · L'art comme possession contre l'art comme liberté
Les thèmes expliquésL'histoire partie par partie, la fin expliquée et un quiz express.
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