succès de scandale
English
Alternative forms
- succes de scandale
Etymology
Borrowing from French
Noun
succès de scandale
- The success of work of art due primarily to scandalous subject matter rather than artistic merit.
- 2010, Hugh Trevor-Roper, History and the Enlightenment, →ISBN, page 163:
- The book was a success – of a kind: a succès de scandale; but it secured him a valuable patron.
- 2014, May Sarton, Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel, →ISBN:
- 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, Kathy Lette, Courting Trouble, →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, Jennifer Birkett & Kate Ince, Samuel Beckett, →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.
- 2015, Vincent Giroud, Nicolas Nabokov: A Life in Freedom and Music, →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.
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