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Collecting together eighty-six different pieces of prose from sixty-one authors, Decadence and Symbolism: A Showcase Anthology, is the most broad-ranging anthology of its kind. Surveying the movements from their beginnings onward, the volume brings together texts from well-known exponents such as Rimbaud and Baudelaire, as well as numerous lesser-known authors, many of whose work is being made available in English for the first time.
Editor and translator Brian Stableford provides an in-depth introductory essay, as well as brief biographies of the various personalities presented.
CONTENTS:
Part One: Precursors
An Invitation to the Voyage by Charles Baudelaire
A Night in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud
Babylonian Dreams by Théophile Gautier
The Diamond in the Grass by Xavier Forneret
Life in Dream by Théodore de Banville
One of my Dreams by Paul Verlaine
Prometheus by X. B. Saintine
Lord Lyonnel by Auguste Villiers de l’Isle Adam
The Search by Ernest Hello
The Little Faun by Catulle Mendès
Des Esseintes’ Dream by Joris-Karl Huysmans
The Pebble that Died of Love by Charles Cros
The Last Human by Frédéric Champsaur
Part Two: Pioneers
The Future Phenomenon by Stéphane Mallarmé
The Demon of Analogy by Stéphane Mallarmé
The Greyhound by Jean Moréas
The Innoucento by Jean Moréas
The Shadow on the Rose by Gustave Kahn
The Natal House by Gustave Kahn
Bobo by Jules Laforgue
Nabuchodonosor by Charles Morice
Narcissus by Charles Morice
Belshazzar’s Feast by G. Albert Aurier
The Lover by G. Albert Aurier
Amen by Paul Adam
Mercury by Paul Adam
Loners by Francis Poictevin
The Magnolia by Remy de Gourmont
Hamadryas by Remy de Gourmont
The Ascension of the Pandavas by André-Ferdinand Herold
The End of the Dream by Adolphe Retté
The Triumph of Love by Bernard Lazare
The Flowers by Bernard Lazare
A Bohemian Tale by Jean Lorrain
The Toad by Jean Lorrain
Leda; or, The Praise of Blissful Darkness by Pierre Louÿs
The Gaze into Infinity by Camille Mauclair
The Sorrow of the Purple by Camille Mauclair
The Day of Days by Stuart Merrill
A King Weeps by Stuart Merrill
The Solitary by Éphraïm Mikhaël
The Tale of the Lady of the Seven Mirrors by Henri de Régnier
Hermogenes by Henri de Régnier
The Storm by Jules Renard
The Frogs by Jules Renard
On A Rock, in the Pure Strong Wind from the Sea by Saint-Pol-Roux
The Pilgrimage of Saint Anne by Saint-Pol-Roux
The Old Girl’s Autopsy by Saint-Pol-Roux
The Mourners by Gabriel de Lautrec
Glorious Action by Gabriel de Lautrec
Three Women in Mourning by Pierre Quilllard
The Double Man by Marcel Schwob
The Future Terror by Marcel Schwob
The Veritable Victory by Frédéric Boutet
The True Story of Bluebeard by Pierre Veber
Avatars by Tristan Bernard
A Descent into Hell by Judith Gautier
The Empress Zin-Gou by Judith Gautier
To a Locomotive by Hugues Rebell
The Rotten Christ by Hugues Rebell
Remembrance by Gaston Danville
Illusory Caresses by Gaston Danville
Hamlet by May Armand Blanc
Medea by May Armand Blanc
Lorenzaccio by May Armand Blanc
Lilith by Renée Vivien
The Forest
The Song of the Sirens
The Passion Considered as a Hill Race by Alfred Jarry
Part Three: Fellow Travelers
In April by Francis Jammes
Pan’s Flute by J. H. Rosny aîné
The Tavern by Henri Austruy
Calypso’s Telephone by Léon Bloy
Lilith by Jean Richepin
The Archduchess by Louis Codet
The Exhibition of Tears by Léon Daudet
One or Another by Claude Cébel
Red Lust by Jane de La Vaudère
The Madonna by Edmond Haraucourt
The Posthumous Bride by Henry Detouche
What the Seasons Say by Hélène de Zuylen de Nyevelt
The Despair of Myrtis by Jacques Lamer
A Visionary by Gaston Pawlowski
Doctor Faust’s First Love by Maurice Magre
Light-of-Sorrow by Han Ryner
The Absentees
Introduction & Notes by Brian Stableford
Cover by Paul Signac
Published by Snuggly Books in May 2018
ISBN: 978-1-943813-58-2
