French Decadent Tales
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Don Juan's crowning love-affair / Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly -- The presentiment ; The desire to be a man ; Sentimentalism / Villiers De L'Isle-Adam -- What the shadow demands / Catulle Mendès -- A dentist terribly punished ; The last bake ; The lucky sixpence / Léon Bloy -- On a cure ; The bath ; The first emotion ; The little summer-house / Octave Mirbeau -- Constant Guignard ; Deshoulières ; Pft! Pft! / Jean Richepin -- At the death-bed ; A walk ; The tresses ; Night / Guy De Maupassant -- The statue / Gustave Geffroy -- An unsolved crime ; The student's tale ; The man with the bracelet ; The man who loved consumptives / Jean Lorrain -- The time / Georges Rodenbach -- Danaette ; The faun ; Don Juan's secret ; On the threshold / Remy De Gourmont -- Perseus and Andromeda / Jules Laforgue -- The brothel ; The sans-gueule ; 52 and 53 Orfila ; Lucretius, poet ; Paolo Uccello, painter / Marcel Schwob -- A case without precedent / Pierre Louÿs.
"This newly translated selection of 36 of the best decadent tales from the French fin-de-siecle brings together some the most exotic, stylized, and cerebral literature in the French language. Hilarious and horrifying, these extraordinary, corrosive little tales cast a cold eye on the modern world"--back cover.
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Oxford world's classics.
PUBLISHED
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: 231 pages ; 20 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780199569274
0199569274
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Romer, Stephen, 1957-
SUBJECTS
Short stories, French -- Translations into English.
French fiction -- 19th century.
Decadence (Literary movement) -- France.
Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.