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. 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. While 'Decadence' was a European movement, its epicentre was the French capital. On the eve of Freud's early discoveries, writers such as Gourmont, Lorrain, Maupassant, Mirbeau, Richepin, Schwob, and Villiers engaged in a species of wild analysis of their own, perfecting the art of short fiction as they did so. 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 newly translated selection brings together the very best writing of the period, from lesser known figures as well as famous names. Provocative and unsettling, these extraordinary, corrosive little tales continue to cast a cold eye on the modern world.
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JULES BARBEY D'AUREVILLY (1808-89)
Don Juan's Crowning Love Affair
LEON BLOY (1846-1917)
A Dentist Terribly Punished
The Last Bake
The Lucky Sixpence
GUSTAVE GEFFROY (1855-1926)
The Statue
REMY DE GOURMONT (1858-1915)
Danaette
Don Juan's Secret
The Faun
On the Threshold
JULES LAFORGUE (1860-87)
Perseus and Andromeda
JEAN LORRAIN (1895-1906)
An Unidentified Crime
The Man with the Bracelet
The Student's Tale
The Man Who Loved Consumptives
PIERRE LOUYS (1870-1925)
A Case without Precedent
GUY DE MAUPASSANT (1850-93)
At the Death-Bed
The Night
A Walk
The Tresses
CATULLE MENDES (1841-1909)
What the Shadow Demands
GUSTAVE MIRBEAU (1848-1927)
The Bath
The First Emotion
The Little Summer-House
On a Cure
JEAN RICHEPIN (1849-1926)
Constant Guignard
Deshoulieres
Pft! Pft!
GEORGE RODENBACH (1855-98)
The Time
MARCEL SCHWOB (1867-1905)
The Brothel
The Sans-Gueule
52 and 53 Orfila
Lucretius, Poet
Paolo Uccello, Painter
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE ADAM (1838-89)
Sentimentalism
The Presentiment
The Desire to be a Man
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