Description
The Decadence Movement which flourished in the 1890s produced some of Europe's most striking and exotic works of literature The Decadents, convinced that civilization was in a state of terminal decline, refused to rebel as the Romantics had, but set forth instead to cultivate the pleasures of calculated perversity and to seek the artificial paradise of drug-induced hallucination.
The Dedalus Book of Decadence looks south to sample the essence of fine French decadent writing. It succeeds in delivering a range of writers either searching vigorously for the thrill of a healthy crime or lamenting their impuissance from a sickly stupor. --Andrew St George in The Independent
Author: Brian Stableford
Publisher: Dedalus
Published: 02/14/2022
Pages: 284
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.70h x 4.90w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781912868681
ISBN10: 1912868687
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Anthologies (multiple authors)
The Dedalus Book of Decadence looks south to sample the essence of fine French decadent writing. It succeeds in delivering a range of writers either searching vigorously for the thrill of a healthy crime or lamenting their impuissance from a sickly stupor. --Andrew St George in The Independent
Author: Brian Stableford
Publisher: Dedalus
Published: 02/14/2022
Pages: 284
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.70h x 4.90w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781912868681
ISBN10: 1912868687
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Anthologies (multiple authors)