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Errant Vice, here presented in English for the first time in a
translation by Brian Stableford, is one of the key compositions of the
Decadent Movement. A blackly comic novel starring Count Wladimir Noronsoff,
the last of an accursed branch of a Russian aristocratic family, this
is arguably the most outrageous of Jean Lorrain's works, with a richness
of perversity and a quasi-imperial craziness in which the Côte d'Azur
is an arena where echoes of Byzantium resound.
This is a novel of fascinating moral and artistic complexity which, with
its horror and sadness, humor and tragedy, is the climax of the author's
career.
Published by Snuggly Books in October 2018
ISBN: 978-1-943813-71-1
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