The libertinage in the work of Evdokia Nagrodskaia

The author aims to present the work of Evdokia Nagrodska, a Russian author now fallen
into oblivion. To do this, he briefly discusses the literary context of the time and her
biography, before analyzing in greater depth her book The Wrath of Dionysus, which was
a bestseller in Russia in the early 20th century. He tries, through the analysis of this novel,
to rediscover a novelist both despised by the Russian intelligentsia for writing popular
literature, and strongly criticized by the former censors for treating themes related to
female adultery, homosexuality and lesbianism. By that he is trying to show that Nagrodska
is primarily an avant-garde novelist who deals with libertinism far more than
pornography and that her freethinking is both sexual and political.