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The Snuggly Satyricon

edited and translated by Brian Stableford

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How many people, over the centuries, must have read the famous Satyricon attributed to Titus Petronius, more commonly known as Petronius Arbiter, and then thrown it away in disgust, having observed that although it is clearly advertised by its title as a book of satyrs, it does not feature any--not, at least, in a literal sense?

Here, at any rate, in The Snuggly Satyricon, edited and translated from the French by Brian Stableford, is the first honest satyricon, featuring an entire chorus line of satyrs, fauns, aegipans and the Great God Pan himself--in whose divine image, of course, satyrs were made. Indeed, in the twenty Decadent tales and Symbolist fantasies in the present volume, the reader will be provided with satyrs of all sorts, some made of stone or wood, some of flesh and blood, and all of the most refined reverie.

Never marching to the beat of the charivari of conventional thought, The Snuggly Satyricon will be sure to make the reader cry "Io Pan!"

CONTENTS:
Saint Satyr by Anatole France
Aegipan by Léon Cladel
The Faun by Remy de Gourmont
Hyalis the Blue-Eyed Faun by Albert Samain
Under the Oleanders by Catulle Mendès
The Last Satyr by Théo Varlet
The Isle of Satyrs by Maurice Montegut
The Death of Monsieur de Nouatre and Madame de Ferlinde by Henri de Régnier
The Doors of Saint-Maclou by Maurice Leblanc
Amycus et Célestin by Anatole France
The Little Faun by Catulle Mendès
Gabrielle and her Faun by Frédéric Boutet
Venus and the Faun by Paul Adam
Pan’s Flute by J. H. Rosny
The Mask of the Faun by Saint-Blancard
Sentimental Hesitation by Henri de Régnier
The Punished Outrage by Gaston Derys
Pan and the Syrinx; or, The Invention of the Flute with Seven Pipes by Jules Laforgue
Introduction & Notes by Brian Stableford

Cover by Marcantonio Raimondi

Published by Snuggly Books in February 2020
ISBN: 978-1-64525-021-0

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