succès de scandale

alternative succes de scandale

1. The success of work of art due primarily to scandalous subject matter rather than artistic merit.

   Whatever else, Irréversible is already a succès de scandale.

   2002 August 2, Geoffrey Macnab, “'The rape had to be disgusting to be useful'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2022

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   The book was a success – of a kind: a succès de scandale; but it secured him a valuable patron.

   2010, Hugh Trevor-Roper, History and the Enlightenment, →ISBN, page 163

   She, on the other hand, was famous or infamous as the writer of a first novel which had had a succès de scandale ... the last thing she had wanted or expected, not realizing that honest probing of matters generally discussed with lifted eyebrows at dinner tables could shock.

   2014, May Sarton, Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel, →ISBN

   She first achieved succès de scandale as a teenager with the novel Puberty Blues, which was made into a major film and a TV miniseries.

   2014, Kathy Lette, Courting Trouble, →ISBN

   In 1972, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari registered a succès de scandale with the French publication of Anti-Oedipus, now widely considered one of the most important poststructuralist texts.

   2014, Jennifer Birkett, Kate Ince, Samuel Beckett, →ISBN

   Nabokov may well have attended also, in early June 1921, the Busch-conducted premiere of Paul Hindemith's one-act operas Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen, and Das NuschNuschi, a major succès de scandale.

   2015, Vincent Giroud, Nicolas Nabokov: A Life in Freedom and Music, →ISBN