A thoughtful work that finds unexpected but apt parallels between the work of an executioner during the French Revolution and a performer of the Grand Guignol. Both women no longer see the macabre as justified in the face of the real, unjustified horror of real-world tragedy. Societal interest in tragic female death is a similarity between Paula Maxa’s and Marguerite Cane’s eras. However, both women are tired of the world’s injustices and deaths being perpetrated by men. We see an odd but touching camaraderie between Paula and Marguerite.
A thoughtful work that finds unexpected but apt parallels between the work of an executioner during the French Revolution and a performer of the Grand Guignol. Both women no longer see the macabre as justified in the face of the real, unjustified horror of real-world tragedy. Societal interest in tragic female death is a similarity between Paula Maxa’s and Marguerite Cane’s eras. However, both women are tired of the world’s injustices and deaths being perpetrated by men. We see an odd but touching camaraderie between Paula and Marguerite.