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

304 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

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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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