The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-De-Siècle France

by Joris-Karl Huysmans, Catulle Mendès, Jean Lorrain, et al.

Book Overview

A collection of stories and novels from fin-de-si cle France that celebrate decline, decay, and deviance.

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 twentieth century came to a close resonate strikingly with those of the last fin-de-si cle: crime, pollution, sexually transmitted diseases, gender confusion,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1890951072
• ISBN13: 9781890951078
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Zone Books
• Length: 1096 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.4" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher