Placeres prohibidos y trasgresión moralmujer y sexualidad en el cuento del fin de siglo

Résumé

The present article analyzes some aspects of the literary representations of the woman in the short stories around the beginning of the XXth century. First of all it focuses on the figure of the femme fatale, whose presence is recurrent in the works of this period. Attractive because of her beauty, voracity and capacity to dominate others, she is considered as the symbol of the other for the male and the patriarchal mentality. The second part of the article deals with the forms of the uncodified sexuality which are associated with the femme fatale, focusing particularly on the sadomasochism as a transgressor imagining of the social and religious morality of the end of the century