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October 2006
5 1/4 x 8, 1088 pp.
$34.95 (PAPER)
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ISBN-10:
1-890951-07-2
ISBN-13:
978-1-890951-07-8

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From Zone Books:
The Decadent Reader
Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France
Edited by Asti Hustvedt

Table of Contents

Introduction by Asti Hustvedt


Les Diaboliques
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
Introduction by Peter Brooks


Monsieur Vénus
Rachilde
Introduction by Janet Beizer


A Haven
J.-K. Huysmans
Introduction by Charles Bernheimer


The Future Eve
Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
Introduction by Asti Hustvedt


La Faënza
Jean Moréas
Introduction by Françoise Meltzer


Selections
Catulle Mendès
Introduction by Barbara Spackman


The Ritual of Love
Joséphin Péladan
Introduction by Jennifer Birkett


Selections
Jean Lorrain
Introduction by Jennifer Birkett


Selections
Remy de Gourmont
Introduction by Jennifer Birkett


Selections
Octave Mirbeau
Introduction by Emily Apter


Selections from Saint Lydwine of Schiedam
J.-K. Huysmans
Introduction by Richard Sieburth



A Select Chronology of Fin-de-Sièle France

Biographies

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