"He had become the dandy of the unpredictable." A quest for new sensations--and an avowed desire to shock--possessed the Decadent writers of fin-de-siecle Paris. Indeed, the years 1880-1900 saw an extraordinary, hothouse flowering of talent, that produced some of the most exotic, stylized, and cerebral literature in the French language. Death and Eros haunt these pages, and a polymorphous perversity by turns hilarious and horrifying. Their stories teem with addicts, maniacs, and murderers as they strive to outdo each other. This marvelous selection by Stephen Romer-whose translations...
"He had become the dandy of the unpredictable." A quest for new sensations--and an avowed desire to shock--possessed the Decadent writers of fin-d...
