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"From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it."
- Groucho Marx
(1890 - 1977)
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ZIN Product Number: 10527032
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 Format: Paperback, 1072 pages
Publisher: Zone Books
ISBN: 1890951072
Release Date: Jan 2, 1993
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 1 review.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
In France at the end of the nineteenth century, progress and material prosperity coincided with widespread alarm about disease and decay. The obsessions of our own culture as the millennium comes to a close resonate strikingly with those of the last fin-de-siècle: crime, pollution, sexually transmitted disease, gender confusion, moral depravity, alcoholism, and tobacco and drug use were topics of popular discussion then as now.
The Decadent Reader is a collection of novels and stories from fin-de-siècle France that celebrate decline, aestheticize decay, and take pleasure in perversity. By embracing the marginal, the unhealthy, and the deviant, the decadent writers attacked bourgeois life, which they perceived to be the chief enemy of art. Barbey d'Aurevilly, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Jean Lorrain, Guy de Maupassant, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Catulle Mendès, Rachilde, Jean Moréas, Octave Mirbeau, Joséphin Péladan, and Remy de Gourmont looted the riches of their culture for their own purposes. In an age of medicine, they borrowed its occult mysteries rather than its positivism. From its social Darwinism, they found their monsters: sadists, murderers, transvestites, fetishists, prostitutes, nymphomaniacs, and hysterics. And they reveled in them, completely upending the conventions of romance and sentimentality. The Decadent Reader, which includes critical essays on all of the authors, many novels and stories that have never before appeared in English, and familiar works set in a new context, offers a compelling portrait of fin-de-siècle France.
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A Taste of Decadence
-- Mirabella Sadier, September 7, 1999
Also Recommended: 1. Against the Grain (A Rebours): J.K. Huysmans 2. Torture Garden (Le Jardin des supplices): Octave Mirbeau 3. The Book of Masks: Remy de Gourmont
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
A very ample collection of stories and novels from fin-de-sicle France. Includes work by Barbey d'Aurevilly, Huysmans, Maupassant, Octave Mirbeau, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, and Rmy de Gourmont
| |  | | | | Introduction | 10 | | Les Diaboliques | | | Introduction | 31 | | Monsieur Venus | | | Introduction | 239 | | A Haven | | | Introduction | 367 | | The Future Eve | | | Introduction | 497 | | La Faenza | | | Introduction | 751 | | Selections | | | Introduction | 773 | | Selections | | | Introduction | 815 | | The Ritual of Love | | | Introduction | 841 | | Selections | | | Introduction | 879 | | Selections | | | Introduction | 925 | | Selections | | | Introduction | 961 | | Selections from Saint Lydwine of Schiedam | | | Introduction | 1007 | | A Select Chronology of Fin-de-Siecle France | 1063 | | Biographies | 1077 | | Contributors | 1087 |
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