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Title: Woman

Author: Magdeleine Marx

Translator: Adele Szold Seltzer

Release Date: October 5, 2010 [EBook #33943]

Language: English

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WOMAN

By MAGDELEINE MARX

INTRODUCTION BY
HENRI BARBUSSE

TRANSLATED BY ADELE SZOLD SELTZER

NEW YORK
THOMAS SELTZER
1920

Copyright, 1920, by
THOMAS SELTZER, Inc.

_First printing June, 1920_
_Second printing July, 1920_

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

_All rights reserved_

CONTENTS

BOOK I BEING BORN

BOOK II BEING

BOOK III BECOMING

INTRODUCTION

A splendid book in which a soul lives so profoundly human and so purely
feminine that any words of introduction seem leaden and intrusive. You
feel as though you were violating the essential delicacy and powerful
life of this soul to comment upon the remarkable revelation of it
between the very covers that contain the revelation.

Yet, as a modest friend of letters, I should like to express an opinion
here--the author did not ask me for it--and pay homage to the brilliant
originality of this work. I want to give myself the pleasure of saying
how important I think it is.

It expresses--and this is a fact of considerable literary and moral
import--what has never been exactly expressed before. It expresses
Woman.

The more woman has been spoken about, you might say, the less she has
been revealed. She has been hidden under a plethora of words. The
supreme vision rising up out of these pages is as luminous as a heavenly
revelation. From the author's tone, so simple and penetrating, you
perceive that women feel differently about the things that we men see
and proudly proclaim.

The thought and spirit of _Woman_ will be a surprise and a shock to the
old masculine traditions, in which women also acquiesce, probably
because of their old tradi