The Book of Masks: An Anthology of French Symbolist & Decadent Writing by Léon Bloy, Pierre Louÿs, John Harman, Rachilde, Emile Verhaeren, Iain White, Ernest Hello, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Robert de Montesquiou, Félix Fénéon, Laurent Tailhade, Alfred Vallette, Albert Samain, Jules Renard, Félix Vallotton, Rémy de Gourmont, Alastair Brotchie, Francis Poictevin, Ephraïm Mikhaël, Stanley Chapman, Pierre Quillard, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Claudel, Henri de Régnier, Georges Eekhoud, Adolphe Retté, G-Albert Aurier, Comte de Lautréamont, Jehan Rictus, Gustave Kahn, Jean Lorrain, Maurice Maeterlinck, Terry Hale, Stéphane Mallarmé, Éduard Dujardin, Jules Laforgue, Marcel Schwob, Malcolm Green, Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Paul Fort, André Gide, Hugues Rebell, Andrew Mangravite, Jean Moréas, Tristan Corbière, Paul Verlaine, Saint-Pol-Roux, Camille Mauclair, Stuart Merrill, Francis Jammes

304 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

fiction poetry challenging reflective slow-paced
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This anthology is the largest ever selection from the Decadent and Symbolist writers of the French fin-de-siècle — a period whose social and spiritual ills had so much in common with those of today.The selection is based on a series of essays on c...

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